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This essay constitutes a polemic with the article by Jacek Filek entitled “Hopeness. An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Hope. Basic Distinctions.” I put forward a thesis that the phenomenon of hope by its very nature is “religious” in character. By “religiousness” I do not mean a concrete confession, but a universal dimension of sense, which forms a positive contrast to the definitively finite nature of human existence. In the first part, I question the distinctions proposed by Filek concerning the phenomenon of hope. In the second part, I note that the “object” of hope is the overcoming of human finitude. In the third part, I emphasize that the content of hope, the “transcendence in immanence”, is interpersonal love.