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>>Our hope is in the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.<<

"Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope."

"I love thee, most lovable Lady, By the love which I bear
thee, I promise ever to serve thee,
and to do as much as I can, that thou be loved by others also.
I put all my hopes in thee, all my salvation. Receive me as thy servant and cover me
with the mantle of thy protection,
thou the Mother of mercy!
Amen.

"You are, indeed, our sweet Queen and our only hope."

"O, our sweet Hope, make us feel thy power over the amiable Heart of Jesus,"

"Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, in this tragic hour of the world's history, we entrust and consecrate ourselves to your Immaculate Heart, our only refuge, our hope, our salvation."

" Time and time again, you have proven to be the Refuge of Sinners, the Hope of the Hopeless, the Consoler of the Afflicted, and the Comforter of the Dying."

"I love you, O my very kind sovereign, and for your love, I commit myself to serve you forever, and tend all my efforts to make you loved by others too. I place all my hopes and all my salvation in you."

All taken from prayers to Mary found at http://www.marypages.com/PrayerstoMary.htm. There are many, many more. Not only is she their hope but their salvation as well. In fact, they have replace the Holy Spirit as comforter with Mary.

I don't think you're ready to understand this, since it requires a deep meditation on the full significance of the Incarnation of Christ our Lord, true God and true Man. By this I mean, His human nature which He got from His mother. It is all predicated on "He Who is mighty doing great things" for Mary as the maternal source of His flesh and blood, His incarnate nature.

He assumed a human nature from her for vast, deep purposes: one of which was to make us partakers in His divinity as He was a partaker in her--- and our -- our humanity.

This makes all the faithful, cooperators in the salvation of the world: even you, dear, Cynical Bear!

But I won't argue with you about this. It is beyond anything I could say to you--- on this forum, especially. Simply: Mary's maternity is the source --- on the human side --- of the Incarnation.