Mode of Hope
Hoping is continuing despite inevitability. Is it? If it were truly inevitable and that were certain, there would be not hope (see LKW’s argument above). For there to be hope, there must be a chance that whatever is coming might not be inevitable.
In the face of life's relentless drift toward disorder, hope becomes a quiet act of defiance against entropy and decay—a stubborn insistence that meaning can still emerge from chaos, and that tomorrow might yet hold something worth reaching for.
Hope means that we don’t know what lies ahead. We hope for a way out, even though none is in sight. We hope for the initiative of others, for chance, for a God who might save us. This can mean: We resist. We refuse to be intimidated. We keep fighting. We persevere. We wait. (Philosophicum Lech, Eröffnungsvortrag des Philosophen Konrad Paul Liessmann)
I would argue hope is persistence in that it carries us through hard times if there is just the slightest outlook of a better future. Hoping is to persevere, to endure…