By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - The truth will win, often more quickly than we expected. This is an optimistic view, often maintained by the Catholic Church, such as in those moments when she is put to the test... Hope itself is not an argument for complacency, but rather, an argument against despair. The Christian virtue of Hope – like all the other graceful mysteries – presents difficulties to the narrowly rationalist mind, and to its logical conscience, steeped in naturalism.