Just know, the minute you put your faith into someone or something is also the moment you open the threshold for disappointment; prepare yourself for both but eternally hope for only one.
Letting go is only recognition it's not fair on yourself to wait on either outcome any longer; it is not a relinquishment of believing nor is it an inability to imagine any longer.
"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us."
I would state the remarkable person that made the above comment that is in quotation marks but if you don't know who said that quote at this point in your life then I don't know what the hell you've been doing with your life thus far. =P (I put that little face symbol but seriously, I'm serious about that).