There's another -- not definition, but description, of hope that has always appealed to me, and it was one by Václav Havel in his perfectly spectacular book "Breaking the Peace," in which he says that hope does not consist of the expectation that things will come out exactly right, but the expectation that they will make sense regardless of how they come out.
وهناك وصف للامل - وليس تعريف له - كان دوما يخطر في بالي قيل من قبل " فاكولف هافيل " في كتابه الرائع " اختراق السلام " والذي يقول فيه ان الأمل ليس ان تجري الامور كما نريدها ان تكون انما هو ان تكون الامور منطقية لنا في النهاية مهما كانت تلك النتائج