“The best you can hope for…”
isn't.
[the reaction to this post surprised me. It's a bit of a Rorschach test, I guess. What I wrote was that we can/should hope for more and expect more and yearn for more, that we shouldn't accept false limitations. Some people misread it to mean that you probably won't get what you hope for. Alas, the price of brevity. If you re-read it, I hope you'll see what I was aiming for…]