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So this is the cheap trick often used to ensure that almost every project in academia ends up being a success (at least on paper): You first shoot the arrow, and then you say that whatever you hit was the target all along. It really does work roughly like in that old joke. Your funding proposal basically just needs to say: “We are going to shoot an arrow into a well-chosen direction” and your final report will say that “after a lot of deliberation we settled on a promising direction, identified a suitable target and successfully hit it with our arrow, proving the efficacy of our arrow-shooting device”. Piece of cake.