Endurance - and this is not a Viagra ad

Came across this phrase yesterday and it stuck with me. "Endurance Inspired by Hope."
Endurance - yep, that's me. I've been enduring in this writing thing so long, I can remember sending off actual sheets of paper to a publishing company. Everything now is electronically submitted and sooooo much easier. No buying "bright white paper". No printing up a couple hundred pages and then wrapping it in nice brown paper and then making a trip to the UPS store.
Endurance - I've written six full novels, a couple dozen query letters, synopsis', chapter summaries, characterizations and one pages.
Endurance is something I study and think about --- and need. So, that phrase caught my attention - "Endurance Inspired by Hope." Hope in my abilities? Hope in my agent's abilities? Hope in catching the eye of some editor out there? Hope in the book market? Yeah, I've put hope in all of those. A good call from my agent inspires me to hope more. Or reading something in one of my books and liking it inspires hope. A turn in the market that favors my style of writing builds my hope.
But then . . . no call from my agent deflates my hope. Or reading an awful, amateurish passage in my writing crushes my hope. The market - well, the market is stupid.
So the first part of that phrase is pretty, "Endurance Inspired by Hope." But it's the part I left out that contains the meat. "Endurance Inspired by Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ."
So this morning I've got to do the work of wrestling my hope back from the places I've put it where it just ends up driving me crazy. Because I will continually be let down by myself, other people and the world. Continually. Always.
Where is your hope placed?