hope is illusion

Hope is a fabrication of mind, a mental illusion designed in the way we prefer things to turn out somewhere and sometime in the coming future, that's how we fool ourselves inorder to carry on, instead of relying on more constructive powerful tools, self-motivation, aspiration and ambition. most of the time we are afraid of ambitions, maybe they are bigger than our imagination can cope with, or we don't have the mental capacity to map a pathway to that land so distantly and dreamfully depicted. so we hang on to hopes, and as they are so false and empty, we simply give up. the thing is, some people just give up not because there is no way but, because they can't find a second way, they are not equipped with a backup plan, and hopes as thin as morning mist just fade away. I have seen strong personalities that have survived the direst of cirumstances, and people who have had their heads in their hands at the first NAH, and those who never try because they fer to hear the "NAH". how do u evaluate urself? (till then i m going to make some coffee).