“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? — Salvation occurred ἐν ἐλπίδι (en elpidi, "in hope")—oriented toward a future not yet grasped. The paradox: ἐλπίς (elpis, "hope") is for the unseen (ὃ ἐλπίζω, ho elpizō, "that which I hope for"); what is visible is not ἐλπίς (elpis, "hope") but possession. Eschatological hope is the mode of present Christian existence.
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