People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not.

Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.

~~~~~~ Matthew (Internet)

@ics "Hope is uncertainty. The uncertainty of the future allows for hope."
Rebecca Solnit in "Hope In The Dark"

@sashag Hope is the lie we tell ourselves about the future. But without that lie life would be dull, gray, and devoid of any happiness.

After all, hope was the last item leaving Pandora's box - to counter all the evil that had just escaped the box before.