The most memorable speech or phrase I've heard about hope was in the second matrix movie, The Matrix Reloaded where the architect tells Neil about the duality of hope. That is a great source of strength but also a great source of weakness.
Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
This is quite accurate. The dual aspect of many qualities of consciousness are also true.
Hope is a good thing. You need to imagine a better future before it exists. For it to not remain imagination, unreal, you have to create it, manifest it into reality.
Hope is good to motivate you towards that goal. You hope it can be done. But you have to make it happen.
Hope alone isn't going to make it happen. That's where the weakness comes in. If you just hope for a better future, and that's it, will it really become real?
Not likely. If you put your faith in someone else to make your life better, you're living in a dream and living in dependence.
Alternatively, being hopeless isn't good at all. You don't even think it can change. You don't imagine and act upon a way to make it happen. That's worth that not having hope at all.
The situation we find ourselves is can look quite hopeless. It looks like we are done for. Here comes the authoritarian train to put us in shackles of various forms.
First it was preventing people from working because of some unscientific untested and false notion that is stops a virus.
Then it was firing people who didn't take a poorly tested unsafe experimental injection.
But it's not hopeless, since if it was all said and done with no escape, they wouldn't be working so hard to blind us and deceive us.