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# Hope
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-catholicism/hope/
- Published: 2026-07-14T03:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-14T03:01:00.000Z
- Description: In Aquinas’s theology, hope is the second theological virtue: a movement of the will, raised by grace, that reaches toward eternal happiness as a future good — arduous, but possible to attain with God’s help.
- Author: Ben Ajaero
- Tags: Catholicism, Scholastic, Western Christendom, Text, English, Summa Theologica, Library, Concept

Hope is the second of the three theological virtues. For Aquinas it is a movement of the will, raised by grace, that stretches toward eternal happiness — a good that is difficult, but not impossible, to attain with God’s help.

## What is the object of hope?

> The object of hope is a future good, difficult but possible to obtain.
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> — [Summa Theologica](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-catholicism/summa-iiaiiae-q17/), IIa-IIae Q.17, a.1

## From what does hope arise?

> Hope, and every movement of the appetite, proceeds from some kind of love, whereby the expected good is loved.
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> — [Summa Theologica](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-catholicism/summa-iiaiiae-q17/), IIa-IIae Q.17

## What does Christian hope finally hope for?

> We hope to obtain happiness by means of grace and merits: the proper and principal object of hope is eternal blessedness.
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> — after [Summa Theologica](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-catholicism/summa-iiaiiae-q17/), IIa-IIae Q.17, a.2