As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
“In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.”
“A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.”