premise: Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about.
hypothesis: Maybe I am wrong, but the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world I don't feel cynical about but I still like to be cautious.