Hope is passive and a way to avoid dealing with the pains, trials and tribulations of the present [and the demands of getting there, wherever it is we're headed]. Rather it's vision and the creative process - the consistent effort to create especially when circumstances get difficult - that designs the future.
But the future emerges from the constraints of the present and not in spite of them. The future builds on what already is, less of course the extraneous or unnecessary. Knowing what physical and psychological realities to develop and what to abandon are always skills worth developing.
Vision is more than an intuitive peek into the future. It's your intention to create, forge or make a path from here to there.
Imagination, dream and hope don't rely on understanding the constraints of the present, which there always are. Whereas vision embraces and uses them to energise and guide the creative process.
But vision is demanding and requires skill - knowledge and the consistent application and experimentation of that knowledge. Mostly it's just easier to hope and leave it to someone else to fix.
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