Augustine of Hippo on Hope
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.
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The Enchiridion 4
When, then, we believe that good is about to come, this is nothing else but to hope for it.
The fact that we do not see either what we believe or what we hope for, is all that is common to faith and hope.
No one, then, need hope that after he is dead he shall obtain merit with God which he has neglected to secure here.
For when there is a question as to whether a man is good, one does not ask what he believes, or what he hopes, but what he loves.