hope
Usage
What are other ways to say hope?
To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. The verb expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? Await (wait for) something implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.
Example Sentences
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I don’t want to sum up the year, outline hopes for 2026, predict or warn.
“Everybody wants peace,” he added, then said slowly, as if hoping Americans would understand: “But a just peace.”
More than two decades on, Yvonne hopes attitudes have changed, and parents would never be treated in the same way today.
From BBC
There is some hope on the horizon in spring, though.
From BBC
Some investors were hoping for a more ebullient end to 2025, pinning their hopes on a holiday-season market phenomenon that lifts share prices in the days surrounding Christmas and New Year’s Day.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
