To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
I hope to succeed.
To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.
To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
I hope in thy word.
The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
Hope Hicks, one of the President’s longest-serving aides, warned Parscale against touting ticket request numbers, reminding him that the number one rule in politics is not to overpromise and underdeliver, a source familiar with the matter said.
An English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hope, a small enclosed valley.
From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian, West Frisian hoopje (“to hope”), Cimbr...
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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
A male given name transferred from the surname.