The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy like that of the historian must be unbounded and untainted by sect or party.
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.