Are you looking at that verse with a half glass empty perspective? Here is the full glass perspective.
Rom. 8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
The latter end of that verse is just referring to the reception of that hope after this life by that same hope in Jesus Christ.
Again, we are saved now and we shall receive our inheritance of eternal life at the end of this life.
God is not an Indian Giver to having saved us and then take it back. How we are received by Him determines what "kind" of eternal life we will have with Him; the first being like the angels that never die, can never marry, and lives in the city of God; the other being excommunicated and thus disqualified from attending the Marriage Supper in Heaven to be resurrected after the great tribulation to live any where in the world but not at New Jerusalem, in serving the King of kings while they can marry and have children in raising up the coming generations during the millennium reign of Christ.
Since Catholics are so determined to build Christ's kingdom on earth, it could very well be why their mentality is set to be disqualified by their works in catholicism in being left behind, even though they are saved to begin with.
So if you prefer that first inheritance, I suggest you go before that throne of grace for help and discernment to see why you need to depart from the Catholic Church and the works of "salvation" within, if you wish to be received by the Bridegroom as a witness that you had been saved since you had believed in Jesus Christ and the God had raised Him from the dead.