Hope is a grand word. It fills one with elevated feelings of perhaps rising to being one of the world's best. I even appreciate the quote....."Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
When you have HOPE one lives in the clouds of positive expectation, of something beautiful taking place. But sadly at the other end of the scale there is the negative word hopeless.
Did you grow up with the words "oh, you're just hopeless" ringing in your ears.