Hope is found in what you see: Are you like the old HEE Haw song: "Gloom, Despair and Agony on me, if it weren't for bad luck I would have no luck at all"; or are You more of a "Tomorrow" type of person like Annie?
If all one does is to study a philosophy or religion and never puts its principles into action they are so "heavenly minded they are no earthly good". We should strive to influence our present with the principles lived out here and now.