False hope gives you comfort for better hope? True or false?
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I will say it depends lols
ScienceBill72
Level 7
Feb 11, 2018
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I could go for that answer, too.
False hope may be good in the moment but it fails to deliver in the long run. The disappointment, hurt, frustration, heartache, and pain will be far worse and longer lasting for not being dealt with at the beginning.
So the answer to your question is "False".
Betty
Level 8
Feb 11, 2018
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Exactly!
I don't believe that I can support that statement! A little hope will be good enough, but false hope is opposite of true hope!
Freedompath
Level 9
Feb 11, 2018
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my honest-to-goodness answer? hope is faith, once removed, & as such too close in comfort to belief, which i understand is a kind of lullaby. i despise all three of them: the un-wholey trinity 
walklightly
Level 8
Feb 11, 2018
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Boy howdy...that was deep...It almost flew over my head!!!
@Freedompath, i don't understand what "boy howdy...that was deep...it almost flew over my head!!!" means. do you?
In some cases, you are right on the button. Hope is situational, eg. a child ran away and a mother hopes the child will return soon. In this case, "hope" is not equated with "faith" but with longing.
@walklightly 'boy howdy' is an old country greeting! And the way you weaved your idea, made me think in a totally different way. Like I sometimes want get certain poems, kinda of thing?
thank you, @Tecolote, i wasn't sure whether it was genuine or sarcastic 
@Betty, this is a tricky one, i find. if i put myself in the situation of the mother i would preferably be able to TRUST, that being an energy of positivity & action, like putting my foot forward, whereas HOPE always has victimhood attached to it, as it depends on someone/something out of my grasp to be fulfilled. just my take on it.
@Freedompath, got it. thanks.
With "trust" there is a measure of certainty that "hope" doesn't have. With the "hope" that your child will come home safe, there is the knowledge that it may not happen. With the "trust" that your child will come home safe, the is the belief it "will" happen. The statistics don't mesh with "trust". That is the difference I see.
@Betty interesting, how differently we - as humans in general - interpret words. for me trust is connected to my limited understanding of the universe. trusting that the universe will reveal everything to my advantage, even if things appear challenging at times - which we need, too, in order to grow. in saying that i do not dismiss your take on it. just that mine is different
Agreed.
False hope may be comforting, but where’s the fun in that? Id rather see reality as closely as I can, no matter the comfort level.
NothinnXpreVails
Level 8
Feb 11, 2018
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion" - Carl Sagan
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