C.S. Lewis once said that hope is recognizing that since our desires remain unquenched in this life, it is because we were made for another one. Hope is in the promise of a life after this one. He's referencing our spiritual needs only getting met by leaving this world for the Promised Land. I will politely disagree with him and suggest that hope exists in the here and now. The Incarnation is the birth of everlasting hope.