In hoping, we lift ourselves above the badly existing. We forgive it, expecting something altogether other. Forgiveness prepares the soil for the new, for what is other. Hope brings with it a great mildness, a serene calmness, even a deep friendliness, because it does not enforce anything. In Nietzsche’s fitting words, it is a proud and mild mood. To hope means to be intensely prepared for what is to come. Hope increases our sensibility for what-is-not-yet, on which we have no direct influence. Even thinking and acting have this contemplative dimension of hoping, that is, of receiving, of
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