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Optimism is an outlook on life such that one maintains a view of the world as a positive place.

People would say that optimism is seeing the glass " half full " of water as opposed to half empty.

It is the philosophical opposite of pessimism.

Optimists generally believe that people and events are inherently good, so that most situations work out in the end for the best. Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.

Hope implies a certain amount of despair, wanting, wishing, suffering or perseverance — i. e., believing that a better or positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary.

" Hopefulness " is somewhat different from optimism in that hope is an emotional state, whereas optimism is a conclusion reached through a deliberate thought pattern that leads to a positive attitude.