If there is no ________ for relief or success or victory, the will cannot endure.

• A. Hope
• B. Motivation
• C. Strategy
• D. Plan

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is how hope fuels perseverance by providing a future-facing belief that relief, success, or victory is possible. Hope gives the mind a reason to endure when progress is slow or obstacles loom, because it imagines a positive outcome within reach. Without that hopeful expectation, the impulse to keep pushing weakens and the will to continue erodes.

Motivation can spark action, but it doesn’t always carry the promise of a favorable outcome. Strategy and plan are about how you’ll act, outlining steps to take, but they don’t by themselves sustain you when the outcome seems uncertain. Hope, by contrast, supplies the emotional energy and reason to persist, tying the steps you take to a possible positive result.