🌟 To wish and believe 🌟 A positive feeling 🕯️ A reason to believe ✝️ Religious trust

hope

∞ 1.0

Someone or something that makes you expect something good

noun
/hoʊp/

: esperanza

Her smile gave him a spark of hope that better days were ahead.
offer hope
renewed hope
best hope

One of them can be sort of hope for living, right.

Examples

So they'd all been holding out hope that their family was OK.
Right now, she's clinging on to the hope of getting out.
Above all, our greatest hope is for peace.
You know, they ask where the hope is, right?
Any final words of hope or that you want people to know?
My daughter, today is a day of fresh hopes and dreams.

Milarepa (2025)
It's almost like it gives them hope.

Blue Like Jazz (2012)
What was your hope for or hope in publishing that book?
And yet they still had hope and optimism for Mike.
And at this point, it's giving Lauren hope anyway.

Synonyms

promise

vshope

283 2.7

A sign that something good may happen in the future

is a broader, less definite source of expectation rather than a strong sign

encouragement

vshope

54 1.9

A feeling of support that makes you more confident and hopeful

is an outside reason or person that creates the supportive feeling instead

flicker of hope

vshope

1 4.1

A small, brief feeling that things may get better

is a more general cause that gives ongoing expectation rather than a momentary sign

Antonyms

despair

210 3.5

A complete loss of hope

Idioms

to hope against hope

Informal

4 6.0

To keep wishing for something even when it seems not likely

cross my heart and hope to die

Informal

8.2

To promise honestly that you are telling the truth

Compounds

beacon of hope

7 3.7

A person, place, or idea that gives people hope during hard times

white hope

Archaic

3 7.7

A person or thing likely to bring success in a field

hope chest

Archaic

3 7.0

A chest where a young woman keeps clothes and linens for her future home

dashed hope

Informal

1 5.0

A hope that is ruined or not fulfilled

great white hope

Slur

1 8.4

A person expected to bring success where others failed

hope and faith

1 3.6

A strong belief that things will turn out well

flicker of hope

1 4.1

A small, brief feeling that things may get better

forlorn hope

Archaic

1 9.9

A risky attempt that is very unlikely to succeed

Cape of Good Hope Province

8.1

A former province in southern South Africa that split in 1994 into Western, Eastern, and Northern Cape

Cape of Good Hope

4.2

A former province in western South Africa now part of several modern provinces

Cape of Good Hope

4.6

A rocky headland south of Cape Town on South Africa's Atlantic coast

dying gasp of hope

Informal

8.1

A last weak attempt to believe things will get better before giving up

scintilla of hope

Formal

7.6

A tiny bit of hope

undersong of hope

Literature

9.7

A quiet feeling of hope that stays beneath other feelings

How Promising

certainty

Literature

202 3.4

promise

283 2.7

hope

∞ 1.0

possibility

∞ 2.0

Surface Forms

hope singular

hopes plural

Etymology

Hope can also mean a person or thing that gives you that feeling, and it comes from the same old verb hopian meaning 'to expect' or 'to trust'. So a 'hope' is something that makes you believe good things might happen.