Chapter — Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Chapter I. On the nature of theological hope
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534. Definition. The theological virtue of hope can be defined: a virtue of the will divinely infused, by which with certain confidence on account of the omnipotence of God assisting, we await and pursue both eternal beatitude and the means necessary for attaining it.
For a fuller explanation of this definition we shall deal separately 1. with the object of hope; 2. with the subject of hope; 3. with the properties of hope.