Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
It's not "wishful" thinking.
You should never wish for wishful thinking.
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.