Sentence:  Even if that 's all the <WSD>promise</WSD> he ever gave or ever will give , the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it , even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe , and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future