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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.

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.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

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 trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.