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Wishful Thinking : the attribution of reality to what one wishes to be true or the tenuous justification of what one wants to believe.

Description: When the desire for something to be true is used in place of/or as evidence for the truthfulness of the claim.  Wishful thinking, more as a cognitive bias than a logical fallacy, can also cause one to evaluate evidence very differently based on the desired outcome.

Logical Form:

I wish X were true.

Therefore, X is true.

Wishing for something to be true is a powerful technique when and only when:

a) you have an influence on what it is you want to be true and ;

b) you take action to make it come true— not just wish for it to be true.

So, make a wish today, but also, make it come true.