What failure are they denying? On this board, failure is denied, and history is deemed irrelevant. A signed contract is not blind hope. Adding a synergistic technology to your own is not blind hope. Somebody believing in you to build a 75,000 sq ft facility and investing 20 million dollars to use your tech is not blind hope on their part. Seems to me the technology has been evolving and the company along with it that seems like a good reason to have hope. Success in anything is never guaranteed, but giving up HOPE guarantees failure.