You can live 40 days w/o food, just a few days w/o water, 4-6 min w/o O2, but not a single second w/o hope. Human beings are unavoidably hope based creatures. How you live in the present is inevitably shaped by what you believe about your future. You can’t avoid that! Hope in the bible is not “wishful thinking” but it is “confident joyful expectation”.