hope

To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].

• They are hoping it does not rain, but I expect it will.
• He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.

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

• I hope to succeed.
• I hope to be going back again soon.

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

• 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.

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

• I hope in thy word.
• Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

To wish.dialectalnonstandardtransitive

• I hope you all the best.

The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.countableuncountable

• All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
• After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.

The actual thing wished for.countable

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

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

The virtuous desire for future good.uncountable

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

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

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

A small bay; an inlet; a haven.Scotland

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