Blue Lanterns have limitations, and when I say limitations, I mean that, of all the lights on the Emotional Spectrum, only the blue light seems to need another light to fully function.
The phrase, “Hope is useless without the will to act on it,” is often repeated, but if this were true, it is completely meaningless and utter nonsense, because if it were true, something like compassion would also be useless without the will to act on it.
So why does only the light of hope need the light of will to function at its full potential?
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I think this is an artificial limitation of the Blue Rings, put in by Ganthet and Sayd. It makes them natural allies to the Green Lanterns, many of whom Ganthet still trusts and supports. It makes them more likely to assist each other, rather than becoming another antagonistic relationship.