A trope OlderThanYouThink, that of a story that informs us the future will not be full of doomsday scenarios, but in fact the time when all troubles will be behind us. All the audience has to do is be patient. Such idealized scenarios are very popular with the general public since everybody is eager for a world where everything will change for the better. The success of this entire idea is entirely built around the premise that so long as the audience still have to wait they will remain loyal. From the moment the future has finally arrived most of them will be disappointed, since expectations don't always live up to the actual accomplishments.

Hope for a better future can be naïve, but many people have changed the world just by gaining strength by believing in their ideas.

This trope is especially popular in religions. All of them promise some sort of salvation or enlightment for their followers if they just keep on believing in the SecondComing or whatever positive future might be coming.

Politicians also love to promise a better future when they get elected. No real life examples are needed. Even before BarackObama politicians have been doing this.

Please note that ONLY examples should be included where the supposedly rainbow shining happy future still has to occur.
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* Every religion promises a better future in the future.
* Many fairy tales revolve around poor people whose lives turn out better afterwards.
* In {{The Pendragon Adventure}} books the original version of Third Earth, which is Earth in the 51st century, is practically perfect. It's an idealistic paradise where the humans are entirely happy, and all of knowledge and history is easily available. However, it becomes much worse once the timeline is changed.
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* The song "The White Cliffs Of Dover" by VeraLynn.
* "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" by FrankZappa.
* "The Miracle" by Queen
* "One Day I'll Fly Away" by Gillian Welch
* "We Shall Overcome" by PeteSeeger
* "Tomorrow Is Mine" from the movie "Cabaret".

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* MartinLutherKing's "I Have A Dream" speech
* {{Transhumanis|m}}ts are sure that accelerating technical progress will reach the [[TheSingularity the technological singularity]] soon enough.