<p>Hope can be anchored in the future as hopeful steps are taken toward a set of projections. Yet hope may also be an ongoing readiness to respond to the world in the moment, through a bodily feeling of perceived significance and associated possibilities. Within the Christian life, the experience of hope can arrive as an ongoing readiness to respond to Christian significance presenting itself in the moment. This type of hope is not wholly dependent on future expectations but is instead a present readiness. Such hope is a style of attunement to the world and can be described in conversation with Donald Capps’s pastoral account of hope and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception. Perceptual hopefulness can be nurtured by pastoral persons who bring into focus what it is to have this hopeful posture, such as the pastor who demonstrates Christian sensitivity in congregational practice. For pastoral people, often men, who tend to relate to the world with a preference for reason, perceptual hope can bring out a way of being sensitive to situations themselves.</p>