How about justice?

[Esquilax]

If this life is all there is, then people can strive for justice, but cannot realistically hope to achieve it.

Said someone who obviously doesn't see any moral good in the pursuit of justice for its own sake.

That's what I find so odd about a certain type of christian theist; they'll extoll all these virtues, talk about humility and justice and truth and morality, but the moment they're asked to consider a universe in which they don't have an all powerful magic genie helping them achieve those virtues, they throw up their hands and give up. It's like they don't see any worth in the concepts themselves, or anything virtuous about striving for them alone.

But if the only justice you care about is the one automatically handed to you without having to do a damn thing for it, then you don't care about justice at all.