Of Hope, Faith, and Frailty

In other words, we are ‘with-hope’, even if we do not   want ‘to hope’ or   ‘to expect’.  There’s a beautiful line by Vaclav Havel, when he was still an inspiring literary man, on the basic distinction between ‘hope’ and ‘optimism.’  Hope, said Havel, ‘is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out’.