hope

They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.

He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.

— Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.

I'm going to get a new car. I hope it will be better than the last one.

It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.

1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause) or clause or so].

I hope to succeed.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(catenative) To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].

They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.

I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise.

(intransitive) To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].

I hope in thy word.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:81:

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms xlii:11:

(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].

I hope you all the best.

(transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

en-verb

hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)

hopes (present singular third-person)
hoping (participle present)
hoped (participle past)
hoped (past)

hoop

to want something to happen, with expectation that it might

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear.


hope

All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.

After losing my job, there's no hope of affording my world cruise.

There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.

(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:13:

(Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.

en-noun

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

hope springs eternal in the human breast

hoop

belief that something wished for can happen

shpresë

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope.


hope

(Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.

From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop.


hope

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope.

1587, Abraham Fleming, Holinshed's Chronicles:

A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea[…]It was called Wolf's Hope (i.e. Wolf's Haven).

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.