Note: Preface ; Introduction : from the grammar of 'Hope' to the practice of hope , Hope and the virtues : the classical tradition ; Hope and the virtues , Hope, epistemology, and passion : a response to John Cottingham , Hope and metaphysics , A two-faced hope : a response to Alan Mittleman , A passion and its virtue : aquinas on hope and magnanimity , Hope and epistemic virtue , Hope, possibility, and the future : philosophical problems ; Kant and Kierkegaard on hope , The sublation of hope into love : a response to Jamie Ferreira , Future of hope : history of hope , The temporality of hope and its existential implications : a response to Arne Grøn , Gabriel Marcel : hope and love in time of death , Hopeful ambiguity : beauvoir's existential ethics and Kierkegaard's Kenotic theology , Is there still hope for hope? , Hope in god : theological reflection ; "Thinking means transcending" on the philosophy and theology of hope , With love, hope is reborn : with hope, love is reborn , The unity of love and hope : a response to Nancy Bedford , From content to enactment : towards a theological hermeneutics of hope in discussion with contemporary philosophy , Eschatology of humor : on hope and comedy in theological reasoning , Hope is no laughing matter (Unless it's funny) : a response to Ola Sigurdson , Hope, suffering and healing : the ethics and politics of hope ; Hope with a small 'h' , Hope with a very small 'h' : a response to William Abraham , What hope remains? Leo Baeck as a reader of job , Hope in the crack of the social : reading the book of job in post-fukushima Japan , Undecidability of hope : a response to Hirokazu Miyazaki , Healing through hope? Trauma, memory, and mental imaging , Hope, meaning, and the perils of theodicy : a response to Claudia Welz , Information about authors ; Index of names ; Index of terms.