I've been doing a study on Hope over the past year, looking up the scriptures, listening to good preaching on it, and I've learned that Hope is linked to imagination. If you can imagine it, you can hope for it. The imaginary play that little kids do is actually a "God thing", and we shouldn't stop doing it as adults (but perhaps in a more adult way...if you see me on the floor playing with my barbies, you can call the men with the white suits...) ;-) Now, the exciting thing is that Faith is the substance of things Hoped for (Heb. 11:1). Isn't it exciting that God can instill hopes and dreams in you, and then give it a way to come to pass! =D