Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
HOPE, HOPE HAS TO BE MAINTAINED
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.