Hope (n.) is a confusion of the desire that something should occur with the probability that it will occur.
Hope (n.) is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Hope (n.) is what feeds a wish; deprive a wish of hope and it soon dies and can no longer give pain.
Hope (n.) befools man until he dances into the arms of death.
Hope (n.) is confusing the desire that something should happen with the probability that it will.
Hope (n.) always frustrated and always springing up again is death by slow torture; an unexpected misfortune is merely a quick death-stroke.
Hope (n.) that is always frustrated yet springs to life again is like death by slow torture, where an unexpected misfortune is a quick death-stroke.