Romans 5:5
And hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Hope is the second of what is known as the theological virtues. Christianity is ultimately a religion of cosmic hope even though it is necessarily bound by the nature of this fallen world to be a religion of soberness and anti-utopianism. Paganism is the eternal attempt to find ultimate hope and meaning in this world. It has a few short term benefits (immediate sensual gratification and so forth) but is, in the long term, a worldview afflicted by cosmic sadness since nobody gets out of here alive. Christianity, beyond the thin scrim of it crosses, fasts, and vigils says that the basic nature of reality is ecstasy and that we are meant to eat, breathe, drink, sleep, live and bathe in it for all eternity. Even more, it says that Hope has already broken into our world in the person of Christ and has even been pour out on our hearts in baptism. Today, look at the Hope that is in Christ and rejoice! This world and its sorrows is not the last word!