Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.

"A ship that has no compass and no fixed star to steer by will still reach some shore, but no one aboard can say whether it is the shore they intended. So it is with a state that has never named, even to itself, what a good outcome would look like."

What is the most logical assumption that can be made from the passage given above?