https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPi_3ACGhJA
They are happy now in their delusions about the future and the great reward they are going to receive, they are in the dream stage of wishful thinking and approaching the nightmare stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishful_thinking
Christopher Booker described wishful thinking in terms of
“the fantasy cycle” ... a pattern that recurs in personal lives, in politics, in history – and in storytelling. When we embark on a course of action which is unconsciously driven by wishful thinking, all may seem to go well for a time, in what may be called the “dream stage”. But because this make-believe can never be reconciled with reality, it leads to a “frustration stage” as things start to go wrong, prompting a more determined effort to keep the fantasy in being. As reality presses in, it leads to a “nightmare stage” as everything goes wrong, culminating in an “explosion into reality”, when the fantasy finally falls apart.[3]