How does one progress in hope?

  1. Reinforce the foundations, the motives the reasons. Meditate on God's power, his goodness and glorious promises.
  2. Effort: be on guard against presumption or despair.
  3. Voluntary detachment, daily renunciation, self-denial.
  4. Filial confidence in God: he didn't even spare his own Son (Romans 8:32-34)
  5. Implore the gift of final perseverance, with the help of the our Blessed Mother.
(Cf Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life, pp 559-567)