wishful thinking
 ˌwishful ˈthinking noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
when you believe that what you want to happen will happen, when in fact it is not possible:
▪ I think she rather likes me. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.
▪ Lomas, for instance, finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war.
▪ Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years.
▪ Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practical logic.
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