Are there any kuffaar who love the Muslims and wish them well?
Question

                There are those who claim that the disbelievers love the Muslims and wish the good for them. They may even justify this by realistic relationships with some of them and that they didn’t see but every good from them (which is known). I hope you can rectify this misunderstanding. 

Also are their scholars different to the masses in this matter?.
Praise be to Allah.
    Allaah has stated in His Book that the kuffaar bear enmity 
    towards us and they would not spare any effort to cause us harm, and they 
    wish us ill, and they will not be pleased until we follow their way. Allaah 
    says (interpretation of the meaning): 

    “O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitaanah (advisors, 
    consultants, protectors, helpers, friends) those outside your religion 
    (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do 
    their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has 
    already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far 
    worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayaat (proofs, evidences, 
    verses) if you understand.

    119. Lo! You are the ones who love them but they love you 
    not, and you believe in all the Scriptures [i.e. you believe in the Tawraat 
    (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel), while they disbelieve in your Book, the 
    Qur’aan]. And when they meet you, they say, ‘We believe.’ But when they are 
    alone, they bite the tips of their fingers at you in rage. Say: ‘Perish in 
    your rage. Certainly, Allaah knows what is in the breasts (all the 
    secrets).’

    120. If a good befalls you, it grieves them, but if some 
    evil overtakes you, they rejoice at it. But if you remain patient and become 
    Al-Muttaqoon (the pious — See V.2:2), not the least harm will their cunning 
    do to you. Surely, Allaah surrounds all that they do”

    [Aal ‘Imraan 3:118-120] 

    “Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with 
    you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) till 
    you follow their religion. Say: ‘Verily, the Guidance of Allaah (i.e. 
    Islamic Monotheism) that is the (only) Guidance.’ And if you (O Muhammad
    صلى الله عليه وسلم) were to follow their 
    (Jews and Christians) desires after what you have received of Knowledge 
    (i.e. the Qur’aan), then you would have against Allaah neither any Wali 
    (protector or guardian) nor any helper”

    [al-Baqarah 2:120]

    Ibn Katheer (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The words of 
    Allaah, “Take not as (your) Bitaanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, 
    helpers, friends) those outside your religion” mean people other than 
    you, the followers of other religions. A man’s bitaanah (advisors, friends, 
    etc) are his closest friends who know about his private affairs. Then he 
    narrated the report of Ibn Abi Haatim with his isnaad from Ibn 
    Abi’l-Dahqaanah, who said: It was said to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah 
    be pleased with him): There is a slave from the people of Heerah who is 
    literate; why don’t you employ him as a scribe? He said: Then I would have 
    taken a bitaanah from people other than the believers. Ibn Katheer said: 
    This report, along with this verse, indicates that it is not permissible to 
    employ ahl al-dhimmah as scribes in a position of authority over  the 
    Muslims where they can become acquainted with their private affairs, where 
    there is the fear that they may disclose them to enemies among ahl al-harb. 
    Hence Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “since they will not 
    fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely”.

    End quote from Tafseer Ibn Katheer (1/528). 

    Al-Qurtubi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Allaah, may 
    He be glorified and exalted, forbids the believers in this verse to take 
    close friends from among the Jews, Christians and followers of whims and 
    desires, and to consult them and delegate their affairs to them. … Then 
    Allaah explains the reason why He forbids being close to them, which is: “since 
    they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you”, i.e., they will not 
    stop striving to corrupt you. In other words, even if they do not fight you 
    openly, they will not stop plotting and planning.  

    Then he said: The words of Allaah “Lo! You are the ones 
    who love them”  mean the hypocrites, as is indicated by the words “And 
    when they meet you, they say, ‘We believe’”. This was stated by 
    Abu’l-‘Aaliyah and Muqaatil. Love here refers to good will, i.e. you, O 
    Muslims, have good will towards them but they do not have good will towards 
    you because of their hypocrisy. And it was said that what is meant is: you 
    want them to become Muslim and they want you to become kaafirs. And it was 
    said that those referred to here are the Jews, and this was the view of the 
    majority. The word Scriptures here is generic. Ibn ‘Abbaas said: What is 
    meant is Scriptures, and the Jews believe in some of them, as Allaah says 
    (interpretation of the meaning): “And when it is said to them (the Jews), 
    ‘Believe in what Allaah has sent down,’ they say, ‘We believe in what was 
    sent down to us.’ And they disbelieve in that which came after it” 
    [al-Baqarah 2:91].  

    “And when they meet you, they say, ‘We believe’” i.e., 
    in Muhammad  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and that he is 
    the Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 
    But when they are alone amongst themselves they bite the tips of their 
    fingers at you in rage and say to one another: Do you not see how these 
    people are prevailing and increasing in number? End quote from Tafseer 
    al-Qurtubi (4/177). 

    Al-Tabari (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: What is meant 
    by the words “Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you 
    (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) till you 
    follow their religion” is:  Neither the Jews nor the Christians will 
    ever be pleased with you, O Muhammad, so stop trying to please them and seek 
    the pleasure of your Lord by calling them to that with which Allaah has sent 
    you of the truth. End quote, Tafseer al-Tabari (1/565). 

    Our Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, states that many 
    of the people of the Book wish that we would embrace kufr, out of envy and 
    hatred. He says (interpretation of the meaning): 

    “Many of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) 
    wish that if they could turn you away as disbelievers after you have 
    believed, out of envy from their ownselves, even after the truth (that 
    Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is Allaah’s 
    Messenger) has become manifest unto them. But forgive and overlook, till 
    Allaah brings His Command. Verily, Allaah is Able to do all things”

    [al-Baqarah 2:109]. 

    Ibn Katheer (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Allaah warns 
    His believing slaves against following the path of the kuffaar of the people 
    of the Book, and tells them of their enmity towards them, both inward and 
    outward, and the envy that they feel towards the believers, even though they 
    are aware of their virtue and the virtue of their Prophet. End quote. 

    Allaah says concerning the people of kufr (interpretation of 
    the meaning): 

    “How (can there be such a covenant with them) that when 
    you are overpowered by them, they regard not the ties, either of kinship or 
    of covenant with you? With (good words from) their mouths they please you, 
    but their hearts are averse to you, and most of them are Faasiqoon 
    (rebellious, disobedient to Allaah)”

    [al-Tawbah 9:8]. 

    This is how they are; they please the Muslims with their 
    words, but their hearts are filled with enmity and evil. 

    To sum up, even if there are some kuffaar who seem to love 
    the believers, one of the following three scenarios must apply: 

    1 – It is just artificial and outward show with no basis in 
    reality, as our Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, tells us, and He 
    knows best what their intentions are and what is in their hearts. 

    2 – It happens with the one who has abandoned Islam and has 
    taken the kuffaar as close friends, and has thus become one of them, as 
    Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And if any amongst you 
    takes them (as Awliyaa’), then surely, he is one of them” [al-Maa'idah 5:51]. 
    Hence they are pleased with him and love him.  

    3 – It may be genuine but this is very rare, and what is rare 
    does not prove anything. It may be due to the kaafir not adhering to his 
    religion or because of his not caring about religion, as is the case with 
    many of them nowadays. 

    What every Muslim must do is beware – as Allaah has warned 
    him – of taking the kaafirs as close friends and confidantes and feeling at 
    ease with them, whether the kaafir appears to be friendly or hostile, and 
    whether he is sincere in his love or not. This is the established rule 
    concerning which there can be no debate.  

    And Allaah knows best.