Kierkegaard - Works of Love Part 2 Chapter 3

Love Hopes All Things

The one who hopes is just as expectant as the one who fears. The difference is that the possibility of  the good is more than just a possibility, for it is the eternal.  This is the basis of the fact that one who hopes can never be deceived.

Everyone who does not understand that the whole of life shall be a time of hope  is in despair.  No one can hope unless he also loves.  The down drag of discouragement, downfall, perdition are all worldliness.

The lover has no indolence of habit, no pettiness of mind, no picayunishness of prudence, no extensiveness of experience, no slackness of the years, no evil bitterness of passion corrupts his hope or adulterates possibility.  Every morning, yes, every moment, he renews his hope and enlivens possibility, if love endures and he endures in love.

If there were no love, hope would be a blessed, awaited letter with no one to collect it.