Your hope is not the human experience of 3,000 years. Freedom is the goal, democracy is just the mechanism, and the passions of democratic mob rule need to be tempered to protect freedom.
My hope is that eventually people will accept 'net supported politics as a way to support true democracy.
If freedom is the goal, then freedom has to be the goal of the majority. Yes, democracy is a mechanism, but we have never truly seen a way for populations to organize politics on mass before.
Democracy in the past (and now) has been an act for representatives that can have their own agenda.