"Hope conquers fear."

I pay lip-service to this notion but lately in particular, I have recognized how I fall short in living like I believe it. It's like the fact that it's always easier to coast along than it is to toil uphill. Fear is like entropy -- you have to actively fight it for it not to gain the upper hand. Hope doesn't just happen, rather, to be hopeful, one must consciously and constantly take captive one's deleterious thoughts and actively seek to change one's own mindset and perspective toward hope.