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The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.