In this article I offer a non-nostalgic understanding of hope while developing a conception of hope without transcendence; a hope that is not directed toward a future (or, even, eternal) good, but lies in the multiplicity of possibilities inherent in the present. Although Deleuze alone and Deleuze and Guattari together do not develop a philosophy of hope, I find that their thought is fertile ground for the creation of a new concept of hope. Thus, their philosophy forms the framework of the discussion, and within it I outline a path that links Nietzsche, Bloch, and Hume. Not only does the ontology of becoming, on which the political thought of Deleuze and Guattari rests, owe much to the philosophy of these three thinkers, I show how their thinking makes it possible to think of hope as a creative force connecting the here-and-now to the future to come. My intention is to show that hope as a force related to the ontology of creation and the metaphysics of change allows us to think of utopia, not as a hypothetical ideal, but concretely as that which exists while simultaneously not-existing, in a process of becoming.