wishful thinking

thoughtfulness, thoughts coming just from the heart

Noun
1. the illusion that what you wish for is actually true
(hypernym) illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy

believing it is true because you wish it was true Roy says that he is going to marry Dawn, but it's wishful thinking.

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A one-sided wish.
A person who acts completely according to his own wishful thinking, disregarding the wishes of others. One's own wishful thinking. Alternative form: 一厢情愿 (yi4 xiang1 qing2 yuan4).

Synonyms and related words:
alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, bamboozlement, befooling, blame-shifting, blind faith, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, compensation, conning, credulity, credulousness, daydream, daydreaming, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, decompensation, defense mechanism, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, disposition to believe, dissociation, dotage, dreamery, dupery, ease of belief, emotional insulation, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fondness, fooling, gross credulity, hallucination, hoodwinking, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, illusion, imaginative exercise, impracticality, infatuation, isolation, kidding, mirage, negativism, nostalgia, outwitting, overcompensation, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overreaching, overtrustfulness, phantasm, play of fancy, projection, psychotaxis, putting on, quixotism, quixotry, rash conviction, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, self-deception, snow job, sociological adjustive reactions, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, sublimation, substitution, subterfuge, swindling, trickiness, tricking, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unpracticalness, unquestioning belief, unrealism, unreality, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, utopianism, victimization, vision, visionariness, will to believe, willful misconception, willingness to believe, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful belief, wishfulness, wistful eye, wistfulness, withdrawal, yearnfulness