I want to - simply for the sake of wanting to see her smile and of showing her love in its purest and most unadulterated form - show happiness to Rei Ayanami.
I have absolutely no desire to experience personal gain or have my love reciprocated, but, even still, I could live a thousand lifetimes and my desire would remain unchanged.
One can hope. I like to believe that user who used to post "everybody finds live in the end" with a picture of Rei and Shinji. I have to admit, in 3.0, Anno did a spectacular job of making me feel a real, visceral sense of loss and confusion making me recognize precisely how much she means to me without me saying a word about it.