These are possible reasons for evil and disasters if there actually is no God. I will deal with hope from a certain theistic viewpoint in the last chapter. Some people may have hope but that, to me, is no different than believing there is a God when there isn't any. Suffering and evil have been around throughout almost all of recorded human history. Part of the problem is coming to some agreement of what is right and wrong.
Some people have hope of working that out.
I do not have such hope. Many people are sure of their position, and fight for it, some verbally, others with weapons. I have little hope of coming to a common agreement among humanity. In fact, my observation is that there is becoming more and more diversity of what is right and wrong, what is good and evil, for which people fight. There certainly is a difference of opinion in this country about whether that is right.