It is impossible to be in the flesh and please God. Anything that departs from the person of God departs from the truth. You will not obey God if you do not trust Him. It is difficult to think about hope without thinking about faith. In a sense, they are twins.
Faith is the foundation from which hope is cast within the veil.
Like the star of Bethlehem, hope gives us a reason to press forward. When David was cast down, he recovered by reasoning upon the goodness of God. What we hope for and who we hope in are inseparably yoked. The new creature has no desire for anything divorced from God. Our lives are dimensional, not just a flat line.