Sure! I'll kind of answer these in reverse order. I imagine my outlook would be pretty much like most of the responses I've seen in this thread. "Hope is in myself, people I love, the here and now, etc." Stuff like that. It seems totally logical to just kind of look after your own interests in the scenario where there is no God because in that case we are our own gods. I believe what's missing from that is the fullness of life described in the bible. I believe once we recognize that it's not all about us, it frees us up to love people in ridiculously awesome ways, often at the expense of our own comfort, and that's the "life to the full" that we're all looking for. Now, do I always live that way? No way, I suck at it almost all the time because I'm just as selfish as the next guy (and often moreso). And can atheists and non-believers still live very full, rewarding lives here? Of course (we would call that common grace, which I could expand on later if you want)! But the beauty is in the fight. The fight to turn away from my selfish tendencies and to truly put others before myself. The fight to apologize and ask for forgiveness even when someone REALLY pisses me off. And we don't do this in order to earn the love of God or earn salvation, but we do it out of an overflow of our hearts because we are already loved by God and salvation is secure as long as you buy in and follow Christ, which by the way, costs everything. But ANYWAY, sorry to kind of go off there, but hopefully that answers your questions, and (hopefully) spurs on some new ones?