Funnily enough, I just picked up the Beelzebub book for reading after seeing your post, and the paragraph I happened to be at was sort of appropriate (p 358):
"And as regards the third sacred being-impulse, name, "essense-hope," its plight in the presences of the three-centered beings here is even worse than with the first two.
"Such a being-impulse has not only finally adapted itself in them to the whole of their presences in a distorted form, but this maleficent strange "hope" newly formed in them, which has taken the place of the being-impulse of Sacred Hope, is now already the principal reason why factors can no longer be acquired in them for the functioning of the genuine being-impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope.
"In consequence of this newly-formed-abnormal hope of theirs, they always hope in something; and thereby all those possibilities are constantly being paralyzed in them, which arise in them either intentionally from without or accidenttally by themeslves, which possibilities could perhaps still destroy in their presences their hereditary predispositions to the crystallizations of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer."