I don't think being desperate will bring any revival in our life. Because it is not we who bring revival but it is God who does it for his good pleasure. Being desperate will lead to frustration and will result in falling of from faith.
The hunger for revival is good enough. Paul says in Romans 12:2,
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
We need to have this hunger to be transformed by the renewal of our mind. This renewal is possible only by God who is working in us to do his will and all we need to do is to work it out what God is working in us. So this renewal is possible only when there is a hunger for it and we seek it. Jesus said seek you will receive. If we keep sitting happy with forgiveness of our sins and call it resting on the finished work then we will never have this renewal of mind to do his will. Renewal will happen only when we hate our sinful nature.