Hope, according to Gabriel Marcel, ‘is engaged in the weaving of experience now in process, or in other words in an adventure now going forward’.9 To hope means ‘to put one’s trust in reality’, to believe in it so that it carries with it a future. When we hope, we become creditors to the future. Fear, by contrast, deprives us of all belief, withdraws all credit granted to reality. It thus prevents the future.
