This chapter examines the notion of an imagined homeland and how it requires the election of a place defined by other spaces as well as the election of a time that will always be not-yet, an anticipatory home, a place desired and thus, as Emmanuel Levinas put it, “a future never future enough.” It first considers strangeness as the basic word, the Urwort, of history and homecoming, taking into account the views of Jacob Taubes. It then explores how imagination assumes a place and what it means to return before proceeding with a discussion of placelessness, spiritual homelands, and the paradox of elective affinities. It suggests that imagining a homeland cannot be conceived outside the works of love, nor without desire as a force of self-othering, that imagination affirms the freedom of election, and that election also needs the freedom of imagination.