Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

The saying links “vision” (a guiding idea of what could be) to “hope” (the emotional and moral energy to persist). Without a forward-looking purpose—whether personal, communal, or spiritual—people tend to drift, lose resolve, and accept present limits as permanent. The line also echoes a long tradition of moral and religious aphorisms in which “vision” means more than eyesight: it is insight, direction, and a sense of calling. In that framework, hope is not mere optimism but a consequence of having a coherent aim that makes effort meaningful.