Hopefully Hoping for hope ..........

What is the extent of Hope ?..actually what is hope ? longing...expecting..thinking...Is there a fixed Duration, Frequency and amplitude for hope..What should we hope for..good, better or the best ...I guess it should be bEST...coz if we dont get the best then we would be happy with the better or just the good..But thats not what we hoped for ! After every activity in our everyday life we tend to hope about its outcome..Right from cooking to shopping to applying for a job...hope develops every minute...But all of them Dont come out as best...sometimes none of them and sometimes all of them...oops you gotta have lady luck for that ! Is it good to hope ?..I mean is it healthy for your mind ?..hmmmm the mind gets exercised...but then it doesnt rest at all..it keeps developing new hopes....and when eventually you reach a state when none of them are fulfilled its a bad bad state ! So eventually i have stopped hoping ...I have started believing !