Postgraduate Aspirations IX: Godly Hope

I have been thinking about what the place of hope is within the context of waiting for and discerning God's plan. There is an impulse to see faithful patience as simple submission ("Whatever you will, Lord), but how does a rightful hope for a particular pathway fit into that? Certainly it does. Perhaps it is not the presence or absence of hope which makes it "godly", but the object and aim of it as such. I am still working this out; I'd love to hear the thoughts of others.