The best hunters are like the best rogues: unsung heroes who do their job and go home satisfied that they had a good bout. And don't even look at the scoreboard except to see which side won. My second main is a hunter, and I prefer to be on FC escort and defense, or EFC recovery/healer stopper.
Here's a touch of irony: The bad hunters, that give the class a bad reputation, don't care what everyone else thinks of them. But the best hunters--the ones that do their job objectively and make the team effective--don't care what everyone else thinks either. If you can be useful and effective in a class with a bad reputation, you'll have to withstand the jeers from the people who only see your class, and not your individual performance, and be secure in the knowledge that you aren't a "baddie" whatever someone else may say.