"Hope is not the same as joy when things are going well,
or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed
for early success, but rather an ability to work for something to
succeed. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.
It's not the conviction that something will turn out well,
but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of
how it turns out. It is this hope that gives us strength to live and
to try new things, even in conditions that seem hopeless. Life is
too precious to permit its devaluation by living pointlessly, emptily,
without meaning, without love, and finally, without hope."

- Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace