Instead, we must “wait without hope,” as T. S. Eliot says.1 This phrase, which we’ll look at more closely in a moment, has occasionally been misinterpreted to mean that Eliot, himself a Christian, had no hope for the resurrection. But the hope Eliot tells his readers to wait without is false hope: a hope that demands results, an impatient hope, a hope that is pragmatic, a hope that rushes to action, a hope that cannot be still and know that God is God.2
