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日本の方からのご協力も大歓迎です

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That English is very confusing and I'm not even really sure what you're trying to say. Translating Japanese literally is going to result in gibberish in many cases.

それにね、本当の望みなんて言っても、
"Also, (you're) talking about your 'true desires' or whatever, but"

そんなの
"all that"

自分だけで分かったつもりになってるだけなのよ
"is just (you) thinking that you understand"

I think what tripped you up is the わかったつもり. When つもり is used with a past tense verb, it means "think something happened", with "something" being the verb. The person she (he? sounds like a woman) is talking to thinks s/he understands, but really they just need to entrust everything to the speaker.