A wish or expectation relates to an object or inner-worldly event. They are point-like. Hope, by contrast, develops a narrative that guides action. It is characterized by narrative length and breadth. Unlike a wish, hope stimulates the narrative imagination. It actively dreams. A wish necessarily involves a feeling of lack, whereas hope possesses a fullness and luminosity of its own. Strong hope does not lack anything. ‘Effervescent hope’ is not an oxymoron. Hope is a force, a momentum. A wish, by contrast, is never forceful.
