What is your reason for hope?

Discussion question for December 15, 2023.

Peter wrote that we should always be ready to give an answer for the hope we possess.  How do you distinguish between hope, faith, and trust?  How do you answer when someone asks you?  What have you done to prepare your answer?  When do you defend your answer, and when do you offer it and let it go?  How do you walk alongside someone who is hopeless?  How do you refill your hope rather than allow another to drain it?