In today's gospel, Jesus answer to the question, "Will only a few be saved?" is to tell the disciples to focus about working out their own salvation in fear and trembling, rather than vainly speculating on questions that you don't know enough to answer.
Because if you neglect the task of working out your own salvation and waste your time speculating, then others are going to enter the kingdom and you will be shut out of it.
Also, speculating about what percentage of the human race will be saved is not *hoping* for anything. It just amounts to using non-revealed and dubious philosophical premises to justify what you think would do if you were God. A dangerous endeavor.
And if God really does will to save many or all people, then he likely wills to do it through secondary causes -- ie. your prayers and evangelization. Which is why we *love* everyone by praying and evangelizing for their salvation.
So, as St. Francis Xavier pointed out in his famous letter to St. Ignatius -- instead of sitting in the university and speculating about whether all will be saved, it is better to go and actually, baptize people, being the instrument through which God saves people.
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