Hope is an essential ingredient for a fulfilling life. Hope calls us on to better things in such a way as to enable us to be fully present in our current circumstances.
Hope means there is always something more to look forward to. Hope subverts regret - in that it does not allow our past actions to have the final word.
Hope is part of our lived expression of faith in a God who is good and who offers us a life that is good.
Hope (along with faith and charity) is considered to be a heavenly grace. May we always be people of hope.