“Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.”
“Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.”
“There is no such thing as a "hopeless romantic". As long as you are a romantic, there is hope.”
“All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless”
“Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.”