You can always find a hope in your passion, and helping others allows you to find hope in it too.
Claudius goes on to bribe Hamlet's friends and while they do protest they end up accepting anyways in hope of helping their friend. I belive that would be considered justified.
is, am, were, was, are, be - the list is quite extenstive and depends on the sentence they are in.
Linking verbs connect a subject to a predicate adjective or predicate noun - they do not show action.
Juliet Ask Friar Laurence for a soultion to her problem which was how could she find a way to not marry Paris.
Hope this helped.