Bible Verses About false hope

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: