I Will Hope.

I will not hope in marriage.

I will not hope in children.

I will not hope in riches.

But I will hope in God for the grace to obtain these things.

Yes, this relationship/friendship may have failed time and time again;

but I cannot hope in it.  

"But this is not hope, and it was never a good idea. No! Hope is placed in God for whatever He will bring to us. We confess this because we know He loves us. The object of our hope is merely a function of our desire. It is proper, but must keep its place. Nothing but God is our right. He is our inheritance. We hope for a relationship with the understanding that it is through His grace that we shall be blessed. I don’t deserve a wife, but hope that grace will provide. We will speak another time of my part in the play. What I know is that short of grace no relationship is truly a blessing."

Hudson Russel Davis, The Distinction Between In and For Part 1