Children are highly motivated compared to adults. Parents and caretakers go to great pains to shield their children from the harsh realities and drudgery of the adult world as long as possible in order to not dash their hopes. How much is motivation dependent on hope, and is it truly as fragile as many parents and adults feel it is?

Hope very much serves the purpose you allude to here. It is a bridge for those lacking faith, for those out of alignment, to help them find a way back to be acting in a divine way in the end or to have a rescue from circumstances and a dark fate where they are surrounded by an unhealthy environment because of those who are out of alignment and imposing their will on the individual, making them a victim in some way. In such circumstances, hope is a lifeline and it is hope that can point people to a better choice, but in order to work there must be some kind of vision, some kind of perspective that encompasses the possible. One must have a plan in mind or an objective in mind that would represent safety, a safe harbor, where they can rest, regain strength, and have renewed energy to take on the world once again. Hope without a target is more akin to desperation and will accomplish little. This is the importance of people having the awareness the divine is always present and partnering with them in their life but behind the scenes. What is needed is for the humans to awaken to the reality the divine is at the ready always to assist, but they themselves must do an outreach to the divine with an explicit request for assistance to make something happen, make something better, help them along to find their way to accomplish a goal, to recover or bounce back from a rough patch, or achieve a betterment that they may never have experienced heretofore. If there is hope in the divine, in having divine assistance, this is reaching out to strength, and when done with sufficient belief and belief in the self, the divine will leap into the fray and help in a material way. All too often, people bring their own obstacles and, in those cases, the hope is a faint hope undercut by inadequate belief in the divine or belief in the worthiness of the self—both are major liabilities in getting effective divine assistance. The divine always honors the free will of the individual and if people have already decided because of dark inner beliefs they are unworthy or that God might not be real after all, asking for help is a long shot at best; there cannot possibly be a robust and fully effective divine response because it is not being supported energetically by the recipient. Hope is a bridge to faith, but not a substitute for faith and belief. It is often the case there is much complacency in people with these deficiencies because they simply cannot envision a better state of being. It just won’t seem real to them or realistic to expect something akin to a miracle to happen under the circumstances, and they may well be right because they themselves have created such a significant obstacle to divine intervention it would only be by ignoring the rules of engagement established by Creator, for assistance that is adequate to the task to be delivered. This simply speaks to the need of people to overcome their complacency and be more active in cultivating their beliefs and their inner faith in the possibility of the divine being real and of service to them for the asking.