[ScotterC]

Absolutely true. And paradoxically, they may fully understand that the phrase is profoundly unwise and endlessly futile and yet know the benefit of holding the belief anyway.

[cutemonster]

Isn't there an implicit "... that you stumbled upon, and found interesting".

And to him (and others like him), that might have been possible.

While for other more ordinary people, it'd be profoundly unwise and endlessly futile, to hope to do that