"Then honestly you really shouldn't be here whenever the big bad 'end of the world thing' comes, cause false hope is all we have. And you just said in this place belief is power."

Maya was well aware of how far hope could take you- everywhere. Having no hope lead her to places she never wants to be again, and no matter how unrealistic hope is, humans needed it. Just the idea, that maybe, just maybe, things might work. "It doesn't matter how powerful you are, if you can't see a way to fix things, what good is all that power?"