Real hope isn't a passive thing, you know; no, hope is a crucial step in the natural process of repair. You can't fix a thing until you have the conviction it should be fixed, and the expectant determination to fix it—and if that doesn't describe hope, I don't know what does.
It's difficult to have hope for society, in any sense of the word, when you struggle to have hope, in any sense of the word, for yourself.
I suspect I'm not alone in that.