One of the overall conceits of cultural theorist of colour José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia is that hope forms an ineliminable part of any critical (and queer) utopianism. As Muñoz repeatedly emphasises (drawing extensively on the work of philosopher Ernst Bloch, particularly Principle), this modality of hope relates in no way to what he identifies as “banal optimism” (Muñoz 3), or optimism that pays heed to overworked ideas. Rather, hope, in Muñoz’s sense, emerges through the politics of the everyday and, in particular, the actions of its most minoritised participants: queer and trans peoples, peoples of colour, Indigenous peoples, and disabled peoples, among others. These actions are “the hopes of a collective, an emergent group, or even the solitary oddball who is the one who dreams for many” (Muñoz 3).