How does religion define hope?

Answer 1

Hope is the absence of doubt, thus religion gives a life free of doubt to the ascribed threw the venue provided in the fellowship of faith.

Answer 2

It's the other way around, religion is defined by hope, or rather wishful thinking.

Answer 3

Depends on the religion.

Answer 4

'You are accepted.' (Sermon by Paul Tillich).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paul_tillic...
http://www.religion-online.org/showchapt...

We cannot transform our lives, unless we allow them to be transformed by that stroke of grace. It happens; or it does not happen. And certainly it does not happen if we try to force it upon ourselves, just as it shall not happen so long as we think, in our self-complacency, that we have no need of it. Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!" If that happens to us, we experience grace After such an experience we may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed. In that moment, grace conquers sin, and reconciliation bridges the gulf of estrangement. And nothing is demanded of this experience, no religious or moral or intellectual presupposition, nothing but acceptance.

Answer 5

religion is Anti-Messiah!

and so religion's "hope" would be liken unto the "hope" some have for a new thing(car,home,job,,etc,,) ;-(

Hope, as all that is Good, is Spirit and must be received.......

Hope is there would be those who receive a Living, Lively Hope of Heaven! For they will have peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-Hope) that is of this wicked, evil world and it's systems of religion.......

Answer 6

Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Answer 7

That depends on the religion.

Answer 8

Actually religion is hope-killer, when theists figure out what was going on

Answer 9

If we hope for that which we have seen why do we continue to hope for it.

Answer 10

knowing that someone is looking over you makes you feel hopeful