Hope an anomaly or grotesque reality?

Hope is the quintessential source of our greatest strength but in this world there is two of everything. While on one side it is decidedly source of our greatest strength, on the other side of the coin it is our greatest weakness too. Greatest strength because we have seen in history how unbelievable work has been achieved solely based on hope and weakness because it blinds you from the reality. On pretext of hope, one is not ready to accept the present situation. But to me, the former one far weighs more than the latter one. What good would we be if there would be no hope? Indeed there is imperfection inherent in every human being but to complement that we have our source of monumental strength “hope”. Theres this great movie called The Shawshank Redemption. In that movie Tim Robins is convicted of a murder he never committed and is given sentence of 50 years or so. He is planning to escape and during the course of the movie, in one scene where he and Morgan Freeman are dining, Morgan Freeman comments on how bad the situation is and Tim Robins says that “they can take away my books, my bed and my food but there is something which they can’t take away and that is my hope”. Morgan Freeman gets skeptical and says that it is that kind of talk which will get him in trouble. It is classical case of paradox that I am talking about. Two persons seeing hope in two different lights. Both are in their way correct which brings us at last to the moment of truth, where in fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end that which side are you on?