'''Hope''' is the confident desire of attaining a difficult good in the future. Hope includes a willingness to engage in effort to overcome any obstacles to the [[General Goal|goal]]. Hope is also an expression of [[wishful thinking]], as for example to say, "I hope that __(a desired outcome will be realized)__." Hope is generally an outgrowth of the [[optimism]] that expects good in general, or the reasonable expectation that a particular kind of good very possibly might come, given the right circumstances, but without any absolute guarantee that it will be so. | '''Hope''' is the confident desire of attaining a difficult good in the future. Hope includes a willingness to engage in effort to overcome any obstacles to the [[General Goal|goal]]. Hope is also an expression of [[wishful thinking]], as for example to say, "I hope that __(a desired outcome will be realized)__." Hope is generally an outgrowth of the [[optimism]] that expects good in general, or the reasonable expectation that a particular kind of good very possibly might come, given the right circumstances, but without any absolute guarantee that it will be so. |