romanticize
verb (used with object)
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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“Muslims who were too young at its heyday and could not join it will romanticize it … It will for a long time be like the notion of a ‘lost caliphate.'”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2017