Our hope in the face of death is Jesus Christ.
For each one of us, our hope is that we will recognize Jesus in our own death: He who died for me and who "dies with me" — really it's more correct to say that I am going to "die His death." We pray that through His death and resurrection, we may be made worthy of eternal life.
The drama of life and death is to abandon ourselves totally and completely to Him, or at least to throw our whole selves — however wildly and desperately — upon His infinite mercy.
Hope in the face of death doesn't come from trying to isolate my "I" exclusively in the spiritual aspect of myself, while suppressing and devaluing the whole reality of being a bodily person. Sometimes we imagine that in death we become angels, and the human body is shed like a casing that never really belonged to us.
But that is not what we are. We are not “spirits trapped in bodies.”
I am a bodily person. My spiritual, immortal soul is also by nature the form of my body. My body is an aspect of me. That is why death, in itself, is such an impenetrable mystery.
But Jesus transforms death, and my hope is that in dying I will "lose myself" only to discover myself fully in Him. In death I shall "lose" my body of this present age in order to live fully, face to face with Infinite Love, as a member of Christ's mystical body (a member of "the Church Triumphant").
This is our hope.
We have hope in the ultimate fullness of His victory, which includes our own resurrection, and the resurrection of all who have gone before us (and those who will follow us), so that the God who is Love might indeed be all, in all. May He make us perfect through Jesus Christ, so that we might rejoice forever in His glory.