(Political) hope is not innocent. Some (political) hopes are ideological and thus defective in a way that is not reducible to other defects. Next to the usual forms of epistemic, practical and moral criticism, some (political) hopes are thus also an appropriate target of another form of criticism: ideology critique. Political hopes can be ideological in two ways: Political hopes can be derivatively ideological, if they derive from underlying ideological beliefs, desires, and/or judgments about practical rationality. Political hopes can also be structurally ideological if they reflect an ideologically distorted conception of the nature of the political agent in question.