I like your hope (and it is my hopeful wish as well); but I have heard, even just recently in a podcast, that
the speed of light barrier is a limit and then a limit forever.
Here's the info page on that podcast, it's the interview with Michael Vasser of the Singularity Institute.
The podcast direct download.
I know there are better sources for this kind of material but the interview is immensely interesting, even if it is about AI and hardly about FTL travel.