Enter critical hope: a dance, a negotiation, a heated entanglement between a critical awareness of the problem (or many problems) at hand and the spark of spirit that - sometimes in contradiction to our own experiences and sensibilities - insists on hope. Critical hope is not naïve hope that things will get better; it is an abiding wisdom that chance cannot be created without a foundational starting point of hope. Critical hope implies an ever-evolving relationship to hope, depending on context, experience, and identity. To practice critical hope is to steadfastly persist through this changing relationship, and to - with hospitality and curiosity - hold space for emotions like anger and grief.

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Grain, K. (2022). Critical hope: How to grapple with complexity, lead with purpose, and cultivate transformative social change (p. 38).