Before revision: Illustration from St. Nicholas: an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks (1884) Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs based on what might be pleasing to imagine, rather than on evidence, rationality, or reality.
After revision: alt=Cartoon of a child sitting in a cart hitched to a much smaller toy horse, as if expecting the horse to pull him along|of a child imagining that a small, toy horse might pull his cartIllustration from St. Nicholas: an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks (1884) Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs based on what might be pleasing to imagine, rather than on evidence, rationality, or reality.