This chapter is an attempt at political engagement that aims to incorporate insights from love and marriage into same-sex unions in India – within the contemporary legal discourses of the Apex Court of the country. It is also a hermeneutic inquiry that moves beyond the theological account by leveraging (future) knowledge in relation to desire and evidentiary models of language, dialogue and democracy. My effort, however, grapples with a nonmelancholic historiography of sexuality, further pronouncing hermeneutic demands based on the recuperation, revision and reparation of the political philosophy of love, marriage and desire as legitimating forces for advocating for the same-sex unions. In further defence, this chapter is informed by transcendental lights of love and responsibility made manifest by action under the principles of justice and political equality and action against the arbitrariness of those principles. The transgression of these principles undermines emotive love, which informs a unique hermeneutic response. And this premise bolsters Ludwig Wittgenstein’s and Hannah Arendt’s respective philosophies, which strive to translate the moral imperative of ‘an ideal’ into ‘the real’.