... For friendship is based on knowledge, and love can be based on mere hope... You can love someone more than you know him, and he can be perfectly loved without being perfectly known. (omgchronicles.vickilarson.com)
Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs. (religion-online.org)
It is a mere hope for a god, a wish for a god, no more universal than the language you speak or the baseball team you support. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)