Hope is the same as Belief: it is self-delusion. One finds their current circumstance uncomfortable so they compulsively invent the idea of better circumstances in the future. It is automatic Thought; a habitual reaction. One's comforting Thought of the future is not related at all to what is actually taking place. It is merely self-soothing, coping.

Meanwhile, the whole movement of discomfort - the root of the Hope reaction - goes totally unexplored and is assumed immutable.