From 2009 on, Greece has become a laboratory of implementation of neoliberal austerity policies but has also seen fierce resistance and a surge of creative alternatives. In the ensuing years of strife, “hope” has been the notion around which political movements attempted to rally their supporters against the neoliberal restructuring. “Hope” in the blochean sense of evoking the “not-yet” existing through prefigurative politics (apud Dinerstein 2014:59) but also “hope” as an empty signifier (Laclau 2000: 56, 84) a catch-all term to unify all different aspirations for overcoming the crisis under the common hegemonic project of Syriza (Katsambekis 2015:158). This article aims to outline the central political imaginaries of overcoming austerity that arose in this period –Plan A of reform and redistribution, Plan B of national economic reconstruction outside the Eurozone and Plan C of a bottom-up reorganisation of politics and economy around the commons– and the interplay between the three in the context of anti-austerity politics. It especially focuses on the abandonment of Plan A by the political forces that expressed it and the challenges faced by adherents of the third imaginary (“Plan C”) in subverting the capitalist market and in addressing the question of power and the state.