In Hell one can not hope for anything and that is because there is no way to get out of the punishment and that is why people like Vigne can only hope for fame and people being remembered by people back on Earth.
When Dante and Pier Vigne are talking, Dante learns a lot about the punishment of those who commit suicide. Vigne tells Dante that when a soul goes to Hell specifically the seventh circle it leaves it's body and "falls into the forest, in a spot not chosen, but flung by fortune, helter-skelter, it fastens like a seed"(245). Vigne also tells Dante and Virgil, "Here shall we drag it, and in this dismal wood our bodies will be hung, each one upon the thorn bush of its painful shade"(245), so Vigne is telling them that the bodies of people who commit suicide are being hang on the branches of the trees that have the souls in them. The contrapasso here is that on earth these people who commit suicide did not want to live anymore and now since they are in Hell, God is giving them what they want and not letting them get back into their bodies. This contrapasso shows the perfection of God's punishments, since these sinners in life did not want live in their bodies on Earth and that is why in Hell they will never get to be back in their original bodies and only can watch it hang down from a branch. .
God divides circle eight into ten malebolge where people who commit fraud are there and one of the ten malebolge is where God is punishing the diviners. When Dante and Virgil are on Geryon's back Dante describes the malebolge as a place where, "concentric moats surround a castle to guard its walls, their patterns clear and governed by a meaningful design, in such a pattern were these ditches shaped. And, just as narrow bridges issue from the gates of fortresses to reach the farthest bank."(329). When Dante first see's the diviners in the fourth malebolge he says that "Their faces were reversed upon their shoulders so that they came on walking backward, since seeing forward was denied them"(361).
