The desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
10 seconds sound clip from the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:51:29 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- But their loss and failure is ours too.
- What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create.
- There was only one road back to L.A. U.S. Interstate 15.
- Just a flat out high-speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo.
- Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, straight into frantic oblivion safety, obscurity.
- Just another freak in the freak kingdom.
[...]