When you desire a specific outcome, whether it is directly a future event or a future revelation about something right now or in the past, you are not in harmony with your innermost nature or the cosmos at large. Again, the superior attitude is total openness to and acceptance of whatever the future outcome maybe. Okay, if it were fine tomorrow, it would look bright and invigorating, I wouldn't have to protect myself from rain, and maybe I'd go for a long hike in the wilderness, and that would be great. But it might well not be fine tomorrow. Isn't it better to have the view that however things work out, it's okay, but simply different from the other possibilities.
Positive aspirations are still important of course.
Pray for the spread of love and compassion in this world. Pray for and will future outcomes that would further that aim. But individual events at any particular time may still appear to be at variance with that positive wish. Let's say I have a spouse who is seriously ill in hospital. Undoubtedly I'd pray for her healing.