"The day will bring hope for me,"said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say,"said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!"
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
"I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."
"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."
"The treacherous are ever distrustful."
"He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed."