Hope is knowing that football fans, like the scarves they wear are made to be lifted up. Because our greatest glory consists in not ever falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius said that, or was it Steven Pressley?

Like Hamdens fearsome roar, hope arouses a passion for the possible. It helps us achieve the unthinkable -Scotland 1 - France 0 (hope, 89)

We can live for 40 days without food, 3 days without water and 8 minutes without air. We can live 4 days in the Ukraine without changing our replica shirts but we can't live 1 minute without hope.

Hope is not caring if we lose every game, as long as we top the group.

Hope is calculating that we only need 6 points from our last two games, Provided the Faroes hold Italy and the Ukraine beat France by two clear goals. And hope is pricing flights from Glasgow to Zurich, "Just Incase".

But most of all, hope is like a path in the country - There never was a path, but when many of us walk the same ground, The path comes into existence. This is the path we follow -

Wherever It Takes Us, Whatever It Takes!