To the hopeful, the world appears in a different light. Hope gives the world a special radiance; it brightens the world. Wishes or expectations do not possess this power to change, open up or brighten the world. They simply await the inner-worldly events or objects that satisfy them. Fulfilment and satisfaction are alien to hope. Hope is not bound up with an object or inner-worldly event. It is a mood, even a fundamental mood, that thoroughly attunes [be-stimmt] human existence.13 If it is intensified, it can even become an elated mood.
