<span>Hope can do a lot of benefits to the people but getting those hopes up and living vicariously in those illusions make them delusional. At this stage if the reality hits them it's not a present experience. Illusions make you believe false and keeps your hopes up without any chance.
Ex: A person believing that he would get employed soon based on his academics and the reality being the severe condition of recession going on.</span>
Patricians had all the power and made laws that benefit themselves only. Why were the patricians frightened by the actions of the plebeians. The plebeians stopped work and stopped defending the city.