FROM St Paul's "faith, hope, and charity" to President Obama's
"audacity of hope", the notion that hope is essential for spiritual
and civic life is rarely questioned. But for Sally Kettle, whose
essay "Does hope help?" was broadcast as part of the Four
Thought strand (Radio 4, Wednesday of last week), hope is an
over-used concept. By using "I hope" to begin so many phrases - not
to mention the grammarian's bugbear, "hopefully" - we pepper our
conversation with hopes that do us no ...
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