I'm not talking about an idle hope that's little more than blind optimism or willful ignorance of the problems we face.

CNN: Obama's Father's Day speech

And this is not blind optimism or synthetic confidence to console people, it is the practical affirmation for our times of our faith in a better future.

BBC: In full: Brown's speech to Congress

I'm not talking about blind optimism here-the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.

CNN: Obama: Time to reclaim America's promise

Secular bull markets, typically, start from levels of valuation that are extremely low and associated with despair, not blind-optimism.

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