Interesting question. I have a trust that things generally work
   out fine. So is that hope? Could be.

   I believe that if you follow a series of steps, sometimes you
   can achieve your dreams/goals/visions, and sometimes you can't
   because you don't have all the information necessary as you
   thought you did.

   I suppose I think a little more like an Engineer: Work with what
   you have and do the best you can to fulfill the requirements of
   the project, whatever that project may be and have much
   redundancy built into the system, because:

   Things break.

   But you still have to keep building.