I don’t know either, but one certainly speaks to the other in my heart.
Well a commonality might be that worldly circumstances do not have to be ideal in order for hope to be valid.
The rules of the kingdom are not the same as the rules of the world. Sometimes you may suffer more if you are living for the sake of the Lord’s plan of doing things, and sometimes you may suffer less. But your suffering won’t be in vain.
(It’s also because the rules of the kingdom are not the same as the rules of the world, that we have a basis to frown on the idea of a church taking over a worldly government, short of the personal presence of Christ. The kingdom participation is voluntary; a valid decision must be made to accept its authority. Nobody needs to make a valid decision, beyond the already past Garden folly, to accept the world’s authority.)