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Wishful thinking is put on, I am posing? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

utopianism

'wishful thinking' is the definition.
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'is put on i am posing?' is the wordplay.
'posing?' indicates an anagram (letters posed in a new order).
'is'+'put'+'on'+'i'+'am'='isputoniam'
'isputoniam' anagrammed gives 'UTOPIANISM'.

(Another definition for utopianism that I've seen is " Belief in an ideal state".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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