I have a vehement craving, a longing desire to be with the Lord, yet I know that it is better that I abide on this earth for the good of the church. So the apostle says, out of a perfect knowledge of the Christian life and truth, that God has worked in him a great desire for us. That great desire that he has is that we would give evidence of the same diligence onto a full assurance of hope. He wants, he craves, that we be diligent. The Christian hope is the confident expectation of the good things that God has promised, along with a love and a desire to have them.
Christian hope is the daughter of Christian faith.
Those promises right now of pardon and of glory-by faith we embrace those things. Hope is born out of faith. Believing those things as real and certain and priceless and good, we hope for them. If our faith begets no hope, it is not genuine faith. All that is true.