Who hopes for what he certainly will receive? In such a situation the virtue at work is patience, not hope. We hope when we are not entirely sure that what we wish for will come to pass.
That's only if one is a Catholic...A Christian understands the meaning of hope in the biblical sense...And it's not what you think it is...
[24] For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? [25] But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.Hope concerns things that are possible but not certain