I alternate between hope and despair,

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.

something was dead in each of us,
and what was dead was hope.