Acting Out Of Hope Acting Out Of Hope Add to Spiritual Diary MARGUERITE THEOPHIL shares a lesson in what an individual acting out of hope can do, even when support seems absent There are words we use again and again, but when we unpack their meanings, we learn so much more. ‘Hope’ is one of these words. I have often been conflicted with my own understanding of hope. Sometimes I think I know what it means, at other times, a full understanding just eludes me. I came across these words from the Czech statesman, poet and playwright Václav Havel at a college in Prague many years ago, they still make the most sense to me: “Hope…is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”