We´ve also had to cancell the upcomming Portugal tour because of the worst crap as always - finacial situations. We´ll be trying to do something around the area some time next year maybe.

This December will be filled with a new recording that we couldn´t make this sumemr because of the break situation, there will most likely be a bigger tour comming up next year, MORE about that one and where it will lead us will be posted. We´ve also been invited to tour Ireland which we most likely will try to do as well this comming spring. There might even be some Swedish gigs as well.

We also got the CD after a long time of waiting, this was even before we went of to Portugal, but we´d like you all to know that if you´re interested in getting some get in touch with us or Black seeds Ireland, Shaman records USA, or maybe you local D.I.Y. distro.

2008-09-07:
So, we managed to do an awesome tour down to Portugal. Thanx a million to all of you..s who helped us out and supported us in any kind of way. Katya and Py, Philippe, Juanmi, Keki, Miguel, Mumia, Rafa and all of you..s being there and putting us on for shows and making us food and giving us some shelter. It..s been amazing. Even though we couldn..t do the last two shows which we are really sorry for we totally appreciate the help in this. To all of you..s that might be around Portugal this November we..ll try to do an other tour in the end of the month, which is going to be kick as!!!
 
We also like to announce to you all that we got Linus to be our new drummer.
 
This will be awesome for all of us, and we see a lot of new activities or all of us, we..ll try to record for the upcomming 4 way split LP this December, since we had to cancell the recording session this August, during this there were actually a new band taking form where Oskar ad some other members of society decided to create some new noise this will be called Subaltern and more about them later.
We have a Uk tour comming up, that you can see on the upcomming shows section, we..ll also do an other tour of Portugal in the end of November, ad more there will be if it won..t affect the situation to much.
 
Steve also like to say that he wants to take somewhat of a break, that because of his health situation makes him not being able to be part of any live shows since his decease is taking to much of his energy every time and the distance makes it a bit hard as well, soo for this we..ll might see him with the band in the Uk for one or two shows and then we..ll wait to get more together when his health agrees with him.
 
More info will follow as time goes, if there are anyone that would like to share some more photos from the tour just let us know it would be cool to get some more for sure.
 
Cheers to you all / PH
 
2008-09-01:
The hopeless bunch is out touring, making Portugal a dangerous place to be! Upcoming gigs in both Evora (3:nd Sept.) and Coimbra (4:rd Sept.), together with Antitedax. On the 5:th they'll play Figueira. Be sure to catch the band in atleast one of the occasions. You won't regret it!
 
2008-08-11:
Hey you all.
 
Got some sad news to share. Stefan has decided to leave th band, it all feels really sad but it was also good that we all could leave of in a good way. We..re going to do a final show together this 13:th of August here in Malmö at the Mo Town, Crime night show. It feels really good to do such an ending and we hope to do as good as we can even though this will be some sort of an ending phase. This also made us canceling the recording session we had booked the last weekend. That will most defenately be taken care of in the future.
 
We..ve had a lot of fun together and we..ll mis that for sure. Even though not as a band, we..re still gonna have a lot of fun together all of us.
 
The band will keep on it..s existence, and the upcomming shows are going to be handled by our great friend Linus. He was already in the works for this since Stefan had to reconsider his plans a couple of months ago when he decided starting educations to be a teatcher. This feels to be the best and we..ll keep on doing what we do. Keep the never ending resistance!
 
/PH
 

2008-07-29:
Added loads of photos, will be more asap, these are from the brazilian tour and the Revolt gig in Malmö the 22:nd of March.

Do not mis the MotTown malmö hardcorepunks gig the 13:th of August, added it as well in the show part.

The bands that will be playing is:

Acoustichrist
Fy Fan
Hårda Tider
Project Hopeless
Raakakopio
Skitkids

No order of the bands yet though.

2008-07-27:
Took us a while to get some updates on this site. As far as now we´re getting some pretty interesting band related things done. This comming weekened we´re going to records some new songs for an amazing fourway split LP with our Malmö friends Hårda Tider, Raakakopio nad Skitkids, can´t say to much when this would be out but we´ll let you know along the process.

We´re also getting some cool gigs booked and confirmed for our tour and so on. There will be a really fucking great gig here in Malmö at Utkanten the 13:th of August, like somewhat of an warmup for the Shit-town festival, the bands that will be playing this festnight will be: Acoustichrist, Fy Fan, Hårda Tider, Project Hopeless, Raakakopio, Skitkids and maybe some more trhis will be up as soon as we know more. Could be somewhat of the the fest of the bands that couldn´t play the Shit-town fest, right??!

The tour to Portugal has some changes to be done, and if you´re living in the area please get in touch with us or Deskontento records to fill the tour, or if you just want us to get to your place it´s more than welcome. We´ve had it all in the hands of Deskontento fo a long time but since they´ve have so much to deal with right now we´re also trying to make it all work the right way. So pelase get in touch if you have any kind of way of helping us out.

Punk Illegal was an awesome fest, thanx a lot to all of you who came out to see us even though we had to postpond the gig a couple of hours because of a van breakdown, but we finally got there and did a really hectic and funny gig, weenjoyed it all, except for the the stress but that couldn´t been helped in the situation we got on our hands. A major thanx to the organizing group of Punk illegal for doing this really great work in putting on this festival in the name of hidden refugees, it meant a lot to us to be a part of this, thanx a lot again for a great weekend.

More info comming up soon.

2008-05-14:
Copenhagen did as usual not do us to good, bass amp started to smoke and the guitar amp started to feedback after half the set, anyhow, thanx a lot to Christina for putting us and Raakakopio on for this show with Infaäme at Stöberiet, a new place for us.

In August we willbe touring down to Portugal, this will be really fucking sweet, before that we´ll be doing Punk Illegal, and also a new recording in one way or an other. More news comming soon. Cheers / PH

2008-04-08:
The shows in Linköping went really good, unfortunately there weren´t to many people showing up Skylten and their festival in Linköping even thought the Christian fundamentalist groups had been screaming their throats of about the poster of satan havign a shit of a crucified Jesus, even got to the medias attention fucking weird people, but our gig went well anyhow so we´re not disappointed in anyway. Thanx a lot to Kaj and the AKC crew for putting us on, thanx a lot! The Malmö show went good as well, there were a pretty good turn out even though it all took place at the basement of Revolt and people having the problem getting there becasue of the non boozing policy, so thanx to Manuella for putting us on in such a short notice and as well for all of our friends and others showing up for this show.

New show is taking place in Copenhagen the 13:th of May wit hInfäme from Spain, might be some more shows the weekend before that as well, we´ll post that as soon as we know more about it all for sure. Might also be playing the Means to an end fest in Bradford this fall as well, hopefully all of us will stay out of trouble by then so that we won´t have to disappoint the Britts once again. To be confirmed within the band first of all of course.

2008-03-16:
First shows since we got back from Brazil. We´re going to play Linköping - Skylten the 21:st of March, booked sicne a long time, and we also got the chance to play Malmö at Café Revolt the 22:nd, not really supposed to but thanx to Manuella we´re on for that night as well. Thanx a lot. Also cool sicne Steve´s actually here then as well.

Cd version of the Välkommen... LP is sent of for pressing, this will be released by: Black seeds, Cactus, Shaman and Wasted sounds records, out within a month. Also sent of the masters and stuff for Borhan, Bullwhip records, to do the tape version of the same. These will also include two unreleased songs which were meant to end up as a split 7" with Illdåd, but that will most likely not ever gonna happen so that´s the differecne from the LP. Till later and hope to see some of you´s at the shows. cheers

2008-02-19:
Added a lot of new merch stuff in the order section, check it out now!! patches, t-shirts, badges, bags and posters. Thanx a lot to Emilia for posing with the t-shirt.

2008-02-14:
Too long since we were being able to update this site, since the tour I (Oskar) moved to a new place which made the posibilities to update the webpage a bit difficult, now on the other hand it´s finally possible again. The tour went well and here´s the thanx letter once again:

We had a great time in Brazil, it had it´s ups and downs as always on tour but it was a great experience, and since we´re being offered getting back in the future most defenately do that, but that will take a couple of years I guess.

We´d like to send out a great thanx to all of you who helped us out on the tour, it was awesome getting to know you all. For taking soo good care of us, ofcourse you´re in our mind Bruno long days are always long days especially waiting, or should that be said in an other way?? haha. Galleria de rock was nice, will never forget it, that´s for sure. And it was great that you took the time to take care of the booking and taking care of us in the last minute where Fabio had to leave us of. thanx a lot for that.
Emilia and Rafael, you know what you guys did for us, it was awesome to get to know you´s and to get the sights and parts seen of Sao Paulo that we´d never would have if it wouldn´t been for you´s also for being soo good to us and helping us out drive wise and all the other things that we did together. That was awesome.
Edu, Joel and Guilherme for the drives, thanx a million for being the ones taking care of that city drives as well.
Josimas and Disköntroll, it was great to get to know you´s and to get the help of you´s and the awesome ending show of the tour together. Next time here I guess, or when we might be getting back again.
Ristettyt Finnbastard, thanx a million for the great first weekend of ours in the warmth, it was a great time, will hopefully be something more in the future as well that´s pretty much sure I guess.

We´d like to thank you all for the shows you were doing for us, Bruno Campinas, Wandersson Bella horrizontes and all of you´s that´s been soo good to us putting us on and all you people who had a good time with us during the shows and afterwards.

That was that, now we´re trying to see what we might be abel to do the comming year, the CD version is getting along good. Seems like it´ll be sent of for pressing any day soon. The labels doing this for us is: Black Seeds, Cactus, Shaman, Undislessed and Wasted sounds records, tape version of the Välkommen till vår sopfyllda fabrik will also be released by Bullwhip records. During the European summer the Brazilian version of the CD will aslo be released, more info about that will follow as well.

WE´re booked for "Nävar Igen" pt4 fest in Linköping the 21:st of March, also the Punk Illegal festival this summer the 27:th of June. It´ll be awesome, feels really good to be playing some more again.

More info will eb updated as soon as we can and get some. Cheers / PH

2007-12-03:
Tomorrow we´re leaving for Brazil. The Cd couldn´t make it out in time. So that one will be postponed till next year. All the info we got so far of the tour can be found in the shows section.

We also managed to get a shit load of our Mp3:s up in the media section, I know that we´ve been lazy about this but now we´ve finally got half of em up. Check it out, it´s most of the songs from the Välkommen LP, all the Kalla jävla samhälle LP and some of the split with Offensive.

Further info from the tour and such might be found at our myspace if we get time to get to some computers during the tour. All the best. cheers / PH

2007-11-05:
We´re getting closer to the Brazilian tour. Feels awesome. Just got the sad news about the CD release of our latest stuff, that Fabio couldn´t make this anymore. There were problems in getting the time to sort it all out, so now we´re with Wasted sounds that need some help in doing this. Feels pretty bad, but we think that it´ll be sorted out soon. So if you´re into helping us out with this, just get in touch and we´ll sort it out.

Got some new reviews of our releases, both from Maximum rocknroll, that´s for the “Välkommen till vår sopfyllda fabrik” LP and the discography CD, check it out, trned out good.

Tour dates will be posted more as soon as we get the final and set dates.

Also got a new print for the tour shirt.

2007-10-26:
Tom´s finally out of the fucked up Danish arrest house in Aalborg, two months past for that shite and fucked up system of Danish law. He wanted to write a couple of words later on for all the support from you great people out there who´s supported him in the ways of sending him letters and other nice things such as clothes and stuff. Comming in a short while.

We would like to thank all of you who booked us for our dates, during the time of Toms sentence, that we had to cancell due to this situation, thank you all so much for understanding the situation. WE hope to be able to do all the dates or somewhat we hoped for doing in England and Sweden.

News ont eh Brazilian tour, check show section for dates, more info will eb added later on.

Cheers / PH

2007-09-04:
The sistutaion´s pretty bad at the moment, we played some shows last weekend and Tom ended up being arrested for assaulting a cop. We´ll see if we´re being able to do the comming shows, but that´s pretty irrelevant at the moment. We´ll keep it posted as soon as we know more. Here´s some intfo about the situation:

This Saturday the 25:th of August we played in Aalborg, we had a great weekend with our friends Skitkids, we were in Flensburg the day before so we had a short and great trip together. For the Saturday we had a good drive and we had a really good set as well. During the Born/dead show, the last one this night, the house, 1000 fryd, got attacked by nazi/hooligan boneheads that threw bottles and kicked some people pretty badly before getting chased of by a lot of the people of the house.

Just as all the people got out to run the idiots away we all got stopped by a shitload of cops that seemed to be up for a fight, and also like they knew what they had coming before knowing anything about the incident that just happened.
The tension among the people and the cops got really bad, pretty fast. The cops claimed that we weren't allowed in the street outside the house and started to provoke the people. When they couldn't get us starting the violence, they started to try to arrest us for being a disturbance to the public order, which we all started to realize to be a really unlucky end for most of us. By trying this they forced us all back closer to the house, where they had blocked the street so that we got jammed in the street. From here it just got worse, since the cops started to hit the people as much as possible.
Many of us got pushed and others being smashed in the head and because of this many wanted to get back into the house again for cover, and the result was that the cops blocked some of us in behind the gates of 1000 fryd. Many people got locked outside, since the cops held back the doors, and outside the cops kept on beating the ones outside and people from inside tried to open to get the ones outside back into the house and try to get cover from the cops. When it all calmed down we had too see who got arrested or injured, and there were 7 of us being arrested, and many more injured.

Most of us went upstairs when we couldn't be sure of the cops raiding the house or not, just to get activists out of the house and do some kind of an mass arrest, we all waited for this a long time, which made a couple of stressed and really annoying hours of not knowing if they would be getting in and what they might do to us, it all went our way, which was really fucking good when we knew what the cops were up for. They backed of after these hours, and we all got a bit more calmed by this. Since we all thought that they were waiting for backup to be able to bring us all down in busses or what ever.

Amongst the ones being arrested this night were Tom, of Project Hopeless, and now the only one left in the arrest. The cops claim to hold him in the arrest because of beating one of the ms in the face. Which we don't know anything about so far, that's just what's been printed in the papers. What we do know so far is that he's ok, arrested for at least 10 or 14 days, hurt during the violent night and gotten an open scar on his head, stitched together in 4 stitches, one of his shoulders still hurting. Horrible as it sounds he's also being out of proper food for at least half a week., so we just hope for the best result at the moment.

If you´re up for supporting one of your comrades in this fucked up world of police brutality please write some encouraging words to:

Tom Jonasson
Arresthuset I Aalborg
Anders Borks vej 3
9000 Aalborg
Denmark

Please try to keep in mind that all the stuff that you're sending here will most likely be read by the cops, so be really careful about the typing.

More info will follow as soon as we know more.

If you're into supporting our friend you're welcome to, we'll be in big financial need if it all goes as it seems to with trials and everything.

Till later, NEVER ENDING RESISTANCE / PH

2007-07-12:
Two new reviews of the new LP, check it out at the media section. From Attackfanzine and Profane Existence web, awesome response.

2007-07-04:
The discography CD arrived this last friday and it looks awesome, thanx a lot to Borhan at Bullwhip records for this release, so all you that might be into getting one or two copies just get in touch. For the ones into bigger wholesales and possible trades please get in touch with Bullwhip records, check our shop part to see all what we´ve got available for the interested one. Cheers.

2007-06-29:
A couple of days have passed after the gig and that we finally have received the LP:s after long delays from the pressing plant. The gig wen´t fucking great, soo fucking cool to see as many people as there were. And a big thanx to Dislickers, Framtid and Fy Fan for this great night, and of course all who showed up.

As said, the LP is finally here, and you´re welcome to order directly from us, Borhan of Bullwhip records also told us that he´s sended a 100 copies of the disco CD so when it´ll be here we´ll let you know to be able to order it all.
We would like to announce that the CD release of the new record will be released by Usina de sangue (Brazil) and Wasted sounds (Sweden), feels awesome to have all this help from these two great labels and friends.
There´s also some new pictures in the picture section from the Aktivitetshuset show, if you by any reason might have any pictures you´d like to share with us from the show this Sunday you´re welcome to contact us about it, and all the lyrics for the LP is also up in the media section.
One more show booked in Stockholm, might be more coming as well. Had to cancel the show in Enköping, since it all got changed in the dates we didn´t got the time to change days taking of from work and so on. Hope that some might understand the reason of that.
More soon.

2007-06-05:
Posted some new gigs that´s confirmed, we´re booked to play the 1000Fryd CH/punk festival the 25:th of August, will be the amongs with others such our compadres Skitkids to mentions one. After that we´re waiting a coupel of days and we´re to play in Göteborg the 7:th of September, have more to be booked but not confirmed yet. Other from that we´ve got the news that we´re to start the tour in Brazil around the 5:th or the 6:th of December, more info will be posted asap.

2007-05-31:
The comming so to be release gig for our new record will be at the 24:th of june in Malmö, other bands this night will be: Framtid, Fy Fan, Nuclear Death Terror, Seein Red + TBA a sixth band ain´t confirmed yet so there might not be one, just what we´ve heard so far.

The record´s not here yet, which they should be. But really soon though. Also got confirmed that the discography CD has been printed, just waiting for the covers to be ready and it´s to be out for sale. Check out Bullwhip records to get more info. That´s it for now.

2007-04-23:
the 12" is finally sent of for the pressing plant today. Now we´re just waiting for it all to get back here and it´s all ready for you.

As for now we´ve got some more shows to look forward to, England dates in October, gonna be some more shows to be booked though. And the so called release show(or what ever you wanna call it, first show w new record out, bla bla) will take place in Malmö the 25:th of June, other bands that´s to play this night are Framtid, Fy Fan + more. Venue/place to be confirmed. That´s it for now.

2007-04-02:
So now, the 12" will be sent of to the pressing plant with in a week or two, the labels releasing the record will be Crisispoint, Dist and Confuzed, Not Enough, Realities of war and Tofu Guerilla records. It´s been the most delayed release in our history as a band. But it´ll hopefully be worth waiting for, actually got a really nice review of it already by Andreas at Folkzine. Enjoy this:

"The last Project Hopeless record was a bit of a disappointment with a very bad sound production, but as soon as I put this new album in my stereo, it was pure bliss and I rejoiced. The sound has been corrected and the snare drum has a nice tune to it! This is more the Project Hopeless I know and the sound treats them well. With their A//E political, d-beat flavoured raw punk and characteristic high and low pitched vocals, they bring us a whole new LP with 10 tracks with the purest form of Project Hopeless. They still vary their songs in both Swedish and English, and this time Steve has got a permanent place in the band and does vocals/spoken word parts throughout the whole record. It’s nicely infused with the music and adds greatly to the musical experience. On track six there's a spine chilling instrumental intro which is a true delight for all of us who get our kicks from instrumental pieces. The band shows proof of a big development since the last record and as stated before, the sound is a lot more improved this time. All this together with a killer cover by Steve (from Visions of War) this makes for an excellent release by Project Hopeless! / Andreas [Folkzine]"

So til the release date you can enjoy some of the song on our myspace site.

There are also some new badges of ours available from Active Rebellion, really nice ones, check em out, they also got loads of other cool stuff as well.

2007-01-31:
Finally, a new look on the web page. This time it´s really fucking sweet. All thanx to Andreas - Folkzine. Thank you so fucking much.

Other from the fact that we´ve gotten a excellent webpage we´re also finally going to play again. This is the first gig in over a year. Guess we can blame the fact that we´ve been a bit to fuciking lazy. Any ways, this gig will be help in Malmö, at Aktivitets huset the 23:rd of February. All together with Warcollapse, Krimtänk and Anchor. This feels really nice, and we´re looking forward to this gig a lot.

Other from that we´ve got no news of the release of the Vinyl, or any other releases. Will kepp you posted as soon as there´s anything happening.

2007-01-08:
A new year has come, unfortunately we did not do any gigs the past year, we had to turn down some offers because of the lineup change and all. Recorded the new stuff and so on.
 
The new LP/CD is finally finnished for the pressing plant, the mixing and the mastering were made in december 06, and now we´re just waiting for the problems to be solved release wise. Hope teh vinyl will be out in February this year. The CD will be released by Usina de sangue records, if nothing will be terribly wrong with the comunication. Also a tour is being planned, but not until the end of this year, Brazil is the plan this is also being organized by the help of Usina de Sangue records, so we hope for the best. More shows will hopefully be done this year as well, a trip to the UK will defenately be done as well. and shows around in Sweden, if people want us to.
 
That´s about it.
 
Don´t forget the struggle in Copenhagen for Ungeren! They need all the suport they can get!
 
2006-11-17:
New t-shirts finally done, both front and back prints,here´s a picture of the ones being available for now, just send us an e-mail about about your order and we will have it at yours as soon as we´ve gotten some money from ya. To the t-shirts: sizes S, M and L 70 SEK not ppd.
 

 
2006-11-02:
So, it´s been a while since we updated this site, just wanted to say that we´ve uploaded some songs on our myspace site from the new recording, check it out at http://www.myspace.com/projecthopeless
 
As soon as we´re getting the vocals part from Steve we´ll finnish the mixing and everything, and then we hope to be able to send it all of to the pressing plant, more info will come a logn with that. If you might be itnerested in helping out with the release of this new stuff just e-mail us to see what´s up, cheers / PH
 
2006-08-29:
New pictures from the recording session of July.
 
2006-08-27:
Got a new cover for the discography CD that´s gonan be released by Bullwhip records later on this year if everything will work out as we hope for.
 

 
There´s also a ABC benefit compilation tape out that we´re a part of. For supporting this work e-mail: scandalpiratten@hotmail.com to get one or more copies of that one for support. Remember that all support is needed and your help is always welcome.
 

 
2006-08-21:
It´s been a bit to long since we updated this site now, to much to do lately, but a good thing along with that has been the new recording of ours. A 12" will be released sometime this year or in the beginning of the next and will be called "Välkommen till vår sopfyllda fabrik" (Welcome to our garbage filled factory), 10 new songs which in my oppinion is better than anything we ever done before. But that´s up to you to judge later on.
Now we´re just waiting for Steve to put his voals in Bradford, and after that we´ll do the mixing and the mastering here in Malmo, or Lund where we recorded the stuff. Thanx a million to Matte P, and Hemgården for the studio time, to make this such a great recording so far, which will be even better later on I hope. Anyways, I hope to put up some photos from the studio, which could be fun, as soon as I get some, I think that Matte has some for us. - Oskar
 
2006-05-10:
The Antifa Benefit LP is finally out, you can just e-mail us about it and we´ll arange the order for you.
 

 
As for the rest of the situation of now we´re trying to get a new kind of a cover for the Discography CD, and it will hopefully be out soon.
 
As for shows we´re still gonna wait until we´ve recorded all the new stuff and then we´ll be able to finally get togehter for a hopefully decent show.
 
More info will follow asap.
 
2006-05-04:
We had to cancel the show the we were supposed to do in Malmö the 4:th of June since we haven´t been able to get together for rehearsals as much as we hoped for. Better to postpond the gigs and concentrate some more on the new songs for the recording session sometime this summer.
 
Besides from the gigs we´ve got good news, the Antifa Benefit LP is finally out, unfortunately we´re not being able to sell any here at the moment since we haven´t got them here yet, but as soon as we do we´ll post it here as for all the other things we have available from our releases.
 
There´s also a ABC benfit comp out as we´re participating in, more info about that one asap.
 
The discography release "Hit men inte längre utan skyddshjälm" will hopefully be released as a CD, and that this summer, working on the new cover at the moment and more info will be posted asap.
 
2006-04-14:
Put up the new LP cover to the right here, more pics of the new work of our Hellgium friend Steve of V.oW. will be up as soon as we´ve got more to show you all.
 
2006-04-11:
First rehearsal yeasterday with our new drummer Stefan Larsson, all went really fucking great, and now we´re just going to rehears all the new stuff for recording with in a couple of months.
 
As for live shows, we couldn´t do the Halmstad show sicne Stefan´s going to play with one or two of his other bands this night, but hopefully we´ll be able to to the Malmö show the 4:th of June.
 
2006-04-07:
If everything will go as we hope we´re going to play the first shows this year in Halmstad the 3:rd of June and Malmö the 4:th of June Sweden, the gigs are posted in the gigs part. The bands that we´re going to play together with both of the shows will be Visions of War and Nuclear Death Terror. More info will come.
 
There´s new patches available in the order part, the new skull and a new look of the nomal logo patch. There´s also a killer review of the Kalla jävla... LP in the reviews part, reviewed by My last chapter a couple of days agoo. The about us part has also got some new info. Check it all out.
 
2006-03-19:
We´ve gotten a picture of the pin that we´ve got for sale. go to the order part to see that one.
 
2006-03-17:
Added a discography part in the Media section, also pictures of the patches that you can order from us if you´re interested. There´s also a new patch design comming up pretty soon as well. And we´ve added the split 7" for the order part as well, there´s a few copies still left of that one.
 
2006-03-16:
A face lift of the website, a bit better now I hope.