That throughout history Government shrinks, people do tremendously better and then the lesson is diluted, not lost. Then socialism or "big Government" creeps back in due to greed, laziness, corruption, vote buying... But as always Big Government however you grow it fails to deliver on any of it's promises and collapse after collapse after collapse occurs. Each collapse is reason for more Government intervention buy slowly that society makes it's way towards it's end.
So for me it's not really hope, its like evolution, an inevitable push by people to reject oppressive Government. There is no stopping this, no matter the society structure we are always moving towards rejecting Government for the betterment of all, it's just how we get there that sucks.