What it comes down to is that people WANT to hate Hope. Either by saying he's realistic or because he's "annoying" and "whines". Really, he's been a doomed character from the day he was introduced. People saw him and said: "Yup, we'll hate him. He's a kid. He HAS to be hated! It's FF tradition! Who cares if he has a good reason or not, who cares if he's well developed, it's a kid, HATE HATE HATE!!!".

Save yourself the effort, I say, *Devore*. I've tried before, it's useless. *shrugs*