Faith is believing a man can push a wheelbarrow across a chasm on a tight rope. Trust is when you jump into the wheelbarrow for the ride. And hope is what you cling to desperately until you get out on the other side!
Hope is critical to our well-being. It has its source in love: “Love always hopes” (1 Corinthians 13:7) and is closely related to faith: “To have faith is to be sure of what we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.” (Hebrews 11:1) Without hope we are doomed to despair. The world is full of it, because so few have hope, or have put their hope in the wrong place: money, power, politics, etc…