It was what remained in Pandora’s box when all else was gone.

Clever blokes those Greeks!

Hope can give one the drive to do more. The inspiration to persevere. The comfort to endure more. And the humility to focus on the effort, instead of the result. But it's not the hope that provides it, it's the perception of a positive outcome that gives solace, and we call it hope. Change the way you look at the future, give yourself hope. Just a thought :/

I don't see a problem with hope, but it manifests itself very differently without a magic daddy involved. I hope for some things to happen and I recognize that the future is unknown. And at some point I may choose to give up hope for any specific outcome, and that is up to me.

Hope is neither realistic nor unrealistic, but if it helps keep you optimistic and motivated, it may increase your chances of solving the problems at hand.

I prefer doing to hoping. But I guess hope for a preferred outcome may motivate one into doing what is necessary to reach the goal. Hope without follow up is just folly.

There is no religious hope just as there isn't a secular hope, hope results from cherishing and or desiring for something to happen. Now stop worrying about existing, angst happens to those who obsess, bitch and dread about things they can't control. Snap out of it!

I think people lose hope these days because they internalize too much of the noise that is going on around them. It is easy to start to feel hopeless when you need to solve poverty, politics, homelessness and ignorance first. I am not saying don't engage with the world, but I think it is important to let it go and let yourself enjoy the parts of life that you can enjoy. I think that helps build a more hopeful outlook.

I'd say hope is the filler for the human mind when it comes to uncertainty, that a being cannot or chooses not to control by means of actions. Mostly, I'd say hope has been instrumental in providing motivation for action in the future, so it does serve a purpose.

as the wise man said: hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills first

In my very young and inexperienced opinion, in the grand scheme of things it's as mute as a toot. A flash in the pan, strike of lighting, or your last breath. But in a present tense, I would say Hope is like a wish. A wish to make an idea or ideal tangible. It's a longing for what might be. And in that regard it could be either a carrot on a stick or a flame under your ass. Either way the only gut reaction is to move. I might sound negative, I'm just a realist and it might really seem negative unless you keep your perspective on the right thing. So in a positive light I feel like hope can be a struck match giving you a small piece of light in a endless void of darkness. It may give you warth, but I believe it alone won't sustain you.

It depends on the situation and what one is hoping for.

I've never really seen the purpose. It's like praying to me, if you don't follow it up with some kind of action, whatever the "hoped for" end is left up to chance. It might still happen, but it won't be just because someone "hoped" for it.

In any given situation there are probabilities and one could be more prepared for the more likely scenario of each. Thus, you can sometimes prepare some (like hope) for a better scenario.

Where would you be without it.

Yes! I hope my son, a crystal meth addict, can stay straight and clean.

When a bear shits in the woods, does it make the trees happy?

Hope does not affect the outcome but it makes people feel good. Perhaps if we hope we get a better outcome since we are in a better mental state and we make it happen

This is an unnecessary deep thought.

Hope is hope. It is not even close to reality in meaning. Hope based on a realistic or pragmatic assessment of a situation can be sound. Anything else is a fool's game.

Depends on the object of hope.

According to Marvin it's totally hopeless

Hope is used in the context of wishing for something to happen for things or states of affairs to be other than what they are in any given moment. I wonder to what extent hope acts as buffer against the uncertainties that occur in life in terms of unknown future outcomes. If we feel uneasy, fear or dread about particular outcome then we hope that it will be different.

As I heard in the army, "hope is not a course of action" which I took to mean you must do all you can to accomplish your mission and leave nothing to chance

Hope means joyful expectation. If you expect something that you are joyful about waiting to receive it, then you have a hope.

no. neither is luck. but chaos prevails & some ppl are lucky.

Hope for what? I hope the human population is reduced to about half-current over a period of time that provides the least suffering, fewer alive each year toward the result by the end of the century. when millions of coastal acres will be underwater.

Lovelock postulated 10% of current by 2100. Although he has modified his thinking, I agree with him.