Should Non-Believers HOPE that a GOD exists?

Should Non-Believers HOPE that a GOD exists? 

Things to consider:

1. "God" isn't a meaningful word until a speaker gives it their preferred meaning.
So the question itself would be incomplete.

2.
If the reason it matters is because of concerns about an "afterlife",
I would point out:
Afterlife could exist as part of nature; with no special intervention needed.

If that's not the reason it matters to you, then why does it matter to you?
There are many individual sentient entities who do exist ... but whom you'll never specifically know about.
It doesn't matter.
Your life continues just the same.

3. If a "God" exists (whatever that is), that would not automatically mean there is an afterlife.

4. Being re-made as a different kind of person in an afterlife would really mean we are being:
a.) replaced with a clone if it has some of our memories and sense of identity.
Or
b.) replaced by someone entirely different if they do not have our memories and sense of identity.

5. Ego is, at best, a selfish indulgence.
At worst, it's a burden.
It does, at the very least, lie to us about our relationships.

With it, we'd probably struggle with more baggage in the afterlife.
And the "i" would still probably be a lie; even if possibly a comforting lie.

Meanwhile, either
a.) our existence would become utterly stagnant ...
or
b.) we'd continue to change gradually over time.

Changing is another way of saying:
continually being replaced, one tiny piece at a time, with someone new.
This is the current nature of our existence.
This is why "i" was never born.
"A baby" was born.
Over time, he was replaced.

Without the ego, the question of "will we live again?" becomes a nonsensical question.
Because then there's not really any specific "i"/person to ask about.

If we remove ego from the equation, there is no longer a problem to solve.

6. If we entertain any of the literal Abrahamic ideas of "God", then:
a highly ethical person
will hope it's fiction.

No ethical person would hope such a monster exists who will severely hurt countless people on purpose.

No ethical person would hope so anyways just because they think (or hope) they can guess-and-win the "true religion" lottery.

Such concepts appeal to utterly selfish and unrealistic gamblers.
 
7. A very reasonable and well informed person
will recognize it as an unreasonable and unhealthy concern.

Consider:
Evil leprechauns are technically possible.

But there's no objective evidence (that I'm aware of) to support their existence as being:
probable.

In contrast,
"The God of Abraham" is anti-evidenced.
So it's actually more likely that evil leprechauns exist.

In either case, a healthy mind wouldn't walk under the shadow of such superstitious concerns.
Nor would they attempt to pull anyone else's mind into such a state.

8. The mindset of hoping-and-assuming some superhero will come and save us from each other and from our own selves ...
is a mindset that works against personal accountability and resilience.

No actually-good "father" would want us handicapping ourselves that way.
It's even worse when that idea comes attached with the even worse idea that "in order to qualify" for that rescue ... we must place ourselves under the moral authority of other fallible humans to tell us WHO we are, WHY we are, and WHAT we must think/feel/say/do/not-do to make "Him" favor us enough to save us.

A good father
wants his children to outgrow their child-state dependencies.

Meanwhile, zero (not any) humans have ever been qualified to tell us what any "God" thinks.

Even just humoring that idea that some people are qualified and appointed ...
creates special and gross opportunities for predatory humans to exploit people in his name.

This is why the ethical responsibility of a Super-Father would be:
to always speak directly for themselves.

Look at all the serious problems in our world caused by:
a.) so many men claiming to speak for a "God"
and
b.) so many followers assuming that some men are qualified and appointed.

9. If this is all some test, ...

then (in that case) the very act of trying to figure out what the intentionally-hiding creator(s) wants from us ...
ruins the experiment.
Eventually, such God-scientists (the same ones who don't mind watching innocent people suffer)
would just cancel the project and toss the whole thing into the garbage bin for recycling.

If this is the situation, then theists are going to get us all killed.
Although, many different religious groups are doing a great job of that on their own.

10. Really everyone would welcome some loving help in their present and future lives.
But a super-sentient, super-powered being either knows, cares, and plans to eventually help... or not.

If so, then great.
Atheists can all be pleasantly surprised.
Although, I'm not sure why anyone needs to call a super-helper (who shows up very late for the party) ... a "God".

"God" is such an overly-flattering expression.

Worship is such an overly-flattering act.

Why be a kiss-ass for a theoretical super-being
who might not actually like it when people are a kiss-ass?

Healthy people
(no matter how much power they have)
prefer social equality.

11. 
Whatever will be ... will be.