Being positive, hard work towards life's goal and satisfaction in life are the keys to happiness. Satisfaction must come from the actions/ steps/ hard work done towards the goals in the life and not from result (or for a particular event).
if you are positive you will find something good in every thing.
Now reply to your basic question:
"What can you do when all hope is gone? Nothing or no one can help you in any way. What is happiness?"
Answer: Try your best towards the issue for which all the hopes has gone...do not see the outcome but focus on your hard/ smart work towards achieving that. If you have given you 100% you will be satisfied and hence even in worst case you will be happy.
when i was in college, one of my friend was doing very hard work (16-17 hours study daily including classes) ..tried to understand every concept (he was not so much intelligent) and did never best in exams but manage to understand concepts properly with his 100% commitment......at the end every one in the college and even in univ. were impressed and recognized his strong understanding about topics..and best part, i had seen always a smile on his face (even when he did not scored much as he know he did his best).
Your entire writing is very mature (considering your age) but full of negativity.. you can not control events in your life..only you can do is to give your 100%. Do not make your happiness depends on others...people are selfish and even if they are not, they can not give you happiness if you are not positive...
consider worst case..death...suppose a person is suffering from cancer and doctor say that you have 2 months....in this situation no one will even help him/ her even they wish too..then what to do..one to become unhappy and make family unhappy and second enjoy rest life with happiness and laughter..
you know after birth, its decided that we must die any day/ any time..so what to do? why we celebrate birthday (where as changes of death come more closer)?
Even if we die and may be we has not fulfill our responsibilities yet......close one may remember us but they will become busy in their work with time...life must go on...
moral of reply: be positive in every step of life and give you 100%, be satisfied that you did your best...you will be happy..( i know this is not easy but this is the fact)