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What is Christian hope? The philosopher Umberto Galimberti often defines the Christian vision of hope as a failure because it would commit us to bet unconditionally on the future that will be assured salvation. This would involve a sort of passivity, a helpless wait. It is the action that determines the future, not the Christian wait, in the opinion of Galimberti, for whom, this linear way of conceiving time towards a better future has also influenced the Marxist revolution and Freudian psychoanalysis itself. The past is sin, oppression or trauma. The present is redemption, revolution or therapy. The future is salvation, well-being or healing. This would give rise to utopia. Instead, how are things? Hope is certainly a projection towards the future, which however is not a mere hypothesis, but a "fact" already revealed in Christ dead and risen. The future is not simply beyond, but is already given in his Person. He is. To hope is to be anchored to the present of God, looking beyond this world, to heaven, where Jesus preceded us as a forerunner (Heb 6:14). Hence an active collaboration with God and not a mere expectation. Finally: is it Christianity that generated Marxism or is it rather Marxism that claimed to replace Christianity? In fact, everything depends on what hope is.