Yes. Jesus' mission was to establish the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. I think it's a better way to live. Jesus believed this was just the beginning of eternal life, but even if it's not I think it makes sense.
If you just endure being a Christian because of what you hope is coming, you should reexamine your idea of the Christian life.
Yet hope is at the heart of the Christian Faith.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith,
hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and
your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 6:18-19
God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of
the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have
this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
1 Peter 1:21
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and
hope might be in God.
Strong's Concordance
elpis: expectation, hope
Original Word: ἐλπίς, ίδος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: elpis
Phonetic Spelling: (el-pece')
Definition: expectation, hope
Usage: hope, expectation, trust, confidence.
HELPS Word-studies
1680 elpís (from
elpō, "to anticipate, welcome") – properly, expectation of what is sure (certain);
hope.
Thayers
much more frequent in the classics, and always in the N. T., in a good sense: expectation of good, hope; and in the Christian sense, joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation:
Acts 23:6;
Acts 26:7;
Romans 5:4;
Romans 12:12;
Romans 15:13;
1 Corinthians 13:13;
1 Peter 1:3;
1 Peter 3:15; ἀγαθή ἐλπίς (often in secular authors, as Plato, Phaedo 67 c.; plural ἐλπίδες ἀγαθαί, legg. 1, p. 649 b.; Xenophon, Ages. 1, 27),
2 Thessalonians 2:16; ἐλπίς βλεπομένη, hope whose object is seen,
Romans 8:24; ὁ Θεός τῆς ἐλπίδος, God, the author of hope,
Romans 15:13; ἡ πληροθορια τῆς ἐλπίδος, fullness, i. e. certainty and strength of hope,
Hebrews 6:11; ἡ ὁμολογία τῆς ἐλπίδος, the confession of those things which we hope for,
Hebrews 10:23; τό καύχημα τῆς ἐλπίδος hope wherein we glory,
Hebrews 3:6; ἐπεισαγωγή κρείττονος ἐλπίδος, the bringing in of a better hope,
Hebrews 7:19; ἐλπίς with the genitive of the subjunctive,
Acts 28:20;
2 Corinthians 1:7 (6);
Philippians 1:20; with the genitive of the object,
Acts 27:20;
Romans 5:2;
1 Corinthians 9:10;
1 Thessalonians 5:8;
Titus 3:7; with the genitive of the thing on which the hope depends, ἡ ἐλπίς τῆς ἐργασίας αὐτῶν,
Acts 16:19; τῆς κλήσεως,
Ephesians 1:18;
Ephesians 4:4; τοῦ εὐαγγελίου,
Colossians 1:23; with the genitive of the person in whom hope is reposed,
1 Thessalonians 1:3 (cf. Buttmann, 155 (136)). ἐπ' (or ἐφ' — so
Acts 2:26 L T;
Romans 4:18 L; () T WH; cf. Scrivener, Introduction, etc., p. 565; (but see above, at the beginning)) ἐλπίδι, relying on hope, having hope, in hope (Euripides, Herc. fur. 804; Diodorus Siculus 13, 21; ἐπ' ἐλπίδι ἀγαθή, Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 187 (Winers Grammar, 394 (368), cf. 425 (396); Buttmann, 337 (290)):
Acts 2:26 (of a return to life);
Romans 4:18; with the genitive of the thing hoped for added: ζωῆς αἰωνίου,
Titus 1:2; τοῦ μετέχειν,
1 Corinthians 9:10 (G L T Tr WH); in hope, followed by ὅτι,
Romans 8:20 (21) (but Tdf. reads διότι); on account of the hope, for the hope (Buttmann, 165 (144)), with the genitive of the thing on which the hope rests,
Acts 26:6. παῥ ἐλπίδα, beyond, against, hope (Winer's Grammar, 404 (377)):
Romans 4:18 (i. e. where the laws of nature left no room for hope). ἔχειν ἐλπίδα (often in Greek writings):
Romans 15:4;
2 Corinthians 3:12; with an infinitive belonging to the person hoping,
2 Corinthians 10:15;
