Hope, in its truest meaning, is much deeper than that. It gets to this idea that it means you actually inhabit a story. And exactly like you said, it's a story with a past, a future and a present That links the the past and the future. In particular, a hopeful story is onehow i would define it would be, this is the story that you feel like your part of the past fills you with a longing,. The future pays off very specifically on that longing. So let me repeat a hopeful story: Is a one that gives us a past that fills us with longing, a future that specific y pays off on that longing, and a present that engages