| Sumario: | When the odds of achieving world peace seem so long, do hopes for peace amount to anything more than wishful thinking? In this paper, I introduce the idea of meaningful hope, which can help us to understand hopes for peace as genuine hopes. When we act on meaningful hope, we draw on the value of the hoped-for future, and we give our hopeful activities a meaning that they would otherwise not have had. If my account is true, then meaningful hope—by moving us away from probabilistic reasoning about the future—loosens the grip that non-ideal conditions hold over how we live, and gives us a way to move towards living a life of our choosing.
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