The actual practice is clouded by emotional ambition if one puts a 'good' or a 'better' with the intention. This intention is clear in that it introduces no self who is expecting reward or punishment for the time given to the mindfulness practice. The dichotomic seesaw only gives rise to unstable emotions. My cat friends, Beauty, Melody, Magic, Daisy, Beamer, Bear and Calico thought it to be quite old hat and also decline. Truth in the extreme sense of black or white is an invention of mankind and can be used in a social power sense to condition the mind, the energy, by throwing it into conflict with itself.
Belief is seen as hope, doubt is seen as fear.
This is the ego's view and it is unstable and liable to violent swings of emotional conclusions and conversions. This has happened again and again in the present history of mankind. Hypnotic chants that can lead people to enacting violence on themselves and others while claiming to be doing the most good for the most people. Creating a God out there from mirage like sense data grasped by memory and projected onto the field of the senses in the present moment is the promotion of ignorance and it could be said to be ignorance itself. Greed, hate and delusion, anger, lust, the piling up of grievances, merits and demerits to propitiate one side or another is to mistake fools' gold for the real gold.