wishful thinking, pollyannaish, panglossian, fanciful, fatuous, vacuous, naive, delusory, delusive, chimerical, utopian, farfetched, hubristic, myopic, deluded, delusional, contentless, softheaded, plausible, glib, presumptuous, credulous, defeatist, solipsistic, cynical, grandiose, implausible, grandiloquent, illusory, idealistic, unrealistic, preposterous, ahistorical, cynic, trite, illusionary, misguided, simplistic, fallacious, foolish, simpleminded, faddish, crackpot, swiftian, harebrained, cockeyed, blue skying, vapid, hyperbolic, alarmist, silly, tautological, hortatory, sententious, realistic, blinkered, gullible, captious, foolhardy, quixotic, unrealizable, perfervid, facile, disingenuous, falsifiable, specious, platitudinous, mealymouthed, truthy, whiggish, fatalistic, dogmatic, bloviation, insincere, tendentious, cocksure, prescient, laughable, contradictive, vainglorious, sophistical, messianic, hackneyed, nebulous, hyperbolized, conjectural, rational, sanctimonious, giddy, irrational, conspiratorial, undiscerning, sophistic, vague, millenarian, technocratic, nonsensical, jejune, reductio ad absurdum, materialist, loftier, demagogical, vain, baseless, fond, optimistic, childish, chiliastic, lustful, muddled, nai've, primitivistic, sanguine, unreal, abstracted, anachronistic

wishfully

aspirant, aspiring, hopeful, would-be