One of my fave quotes about hope comes from one of my fave movies, 'The Lion in Winter'.

Queen Eleanor & King Henry Plantagenet are having a come-to-Jesus moment in the wine cellar of Chinon castle, & they have the following exchange:

E: There's everything in life but hope.
H: We're both alive... & for all I know, that's what hope is.

From that line I take the idea that hope isn't a feeling, it's a state of existing: if you're still alive, there's still hope for all sorts of outcomes, really. & that's all you need: just to be alive.

So many great quotes & scenes from that flick. Eleanor's monologue about the barbarism of human beings is priceless: "Of course he's got a knife, we've all got knives, it's 1183 and we're barbarians!"

& it just goes from there.

The monologue, for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzcFbhPV-o