Hope Is Important is the first full-length studio album by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released 19 October 1998. The record follows on from their earlier six-track release, Captain.In an 2007 interview, Roddy Woomble states that the band were: one of the last of those sort of groups, I suppose, that weren’t totally judged on their first album. Which is just as well, as that record is messy and it’s noisy… yeah, I mean Hope Is Important.