Defending Hope Human beings can live on scarce resources and in dire circumstances, but we can’t live without hope. Hope is essentially the belief that our future will be better than our past. When we are sick, we hope for a future of health and wellness, when we are poor we hope for a future of prosperity, and when we are alone, we hope for a future with friends and family. Perhaps our deepest hope is to be relieved of our finitude. We all know that our bodies are finite and
