How you have hope is irrelevant. It only matters that you do, for the sake of your sanity and for the sake of those that are fighting for their lives as we speak. Hope with as much strength as you can muster so that they might borrow from that.

If nothing else, do not allow them to see that you have given them up for dead. People find it more difficult to live if the ones caring for them clearly don't believe they can.

[Listen to the dead man, Zulf. He knows how this whole hope and despair thing works really well.]