“… 5. Representative examples are Dienstag (2006), Strong (2012) and Marasco (2015). There is a small but growing literature on hope that runs counter to this tendency; see, for example, Blöser et al (2020), Goldman (2012, 2023), Huber (2021), Lacelle-Webster (2023), Mittleman (2009), Moellendorf (2022), Stahl (2019), Stockdale (2021), Thaler (2018), and Thaler (2019). …”