Someone told me: "Just go to the newspaper office and tell them about your project - and expect that they might say NO" Go somewhere and expect a negative outcome? Why? If I expect the rejection, it will make it less painful? NO WAY! I'm going there expecting, that they say YES! Maybe they won't. Maybe not that day. But I will expecting a YES and come again and again until they say YES. It's also a technique used by salesmen - "ASSUME the sale". They see a customer and assume he wants to buy the product. That way of thinking influences the behavior of the salesmen and customer. I assume a YES and if it is not a YES now, it will be a YES later.
It's like with the sun, I 100% assume it will rise again tomorrow.