Is asking people to keep hope alive the same thing as shaming them for feeling hopeless? I hope my words don't come out that way, since it's certainly not what

Is asking people to keep hope alive the same thing as shaming them for feeling hopeless? I hope my words don't come out that way, since it's certainly not what I intend. Also, one point I'm making here is that a small dev may not be able to make a world-dominating project by themselves, but it may serve as the foundation of something larger later. Is that really surprising or controversial? Perhaps a more important point I'd like to make is that neither Apple nor Google were quixotic enough to start a browser engine from scratch, for all of their expertise and cash. Without KHTML, we might still be suffering under IE or something even worse. It may take someone willing to tilt at windmills to dethrone Blink/Chrome, I don't think the suits will save us.