For me, the meaning of life is in this life first.
Freedom of will, to choose which path you take, which choices you make.
This life and how you live it is a base for the next life, learning stages.
I try to choose "the right thing" but this is sometimes hard ofcourse.

I get hope out of little things in life, small gestures of another person or just appreciating my surroundings.
I also get hope/calmness from praying/talking to G'd (directly, not priests or other persons in between), which is like somesort of evaluation of how things are going. And doing the rituals/holidaycelebrations to feel connected with all the generations and lives that were before me, to do something physical aside from the choices I make in life to appreciate G'd/life.

It gives me strength to deal with my past and all that has happened in life, to think it is all to learn from and to gain intelligence and strength and feeling from. Playing life with the cards you got handed to you so to speak and trying to make it balanced out.
G'd doesn't make it right, you have the choices to make yourself.

After this life (and/or other lives) I believe in a spiritual state/energy, some call it heaven, Gan Eden, or The world to come.

These are my personal beliefs (which are in Judaism)


I also don't think religion is responsible for the fear and hatred in the world as someone said earlier, I think it is the people that misuse religion who do that. Using it to better themselves.