Word Finder - hope

definition

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

example

I am still hoping that all will turn out well.

definition

To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

definition

To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.

definition

To wish.

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I hope you all the best.

I hope you like it.

I hope you decide to take the job.

I hope to have a love like yours some day.

I hope your meeting goes well.

I hope you accept this by the time the baby is born.

I'm sending you this card and hope to see you on your birthday if you can get away.

I hope you will write to your little friend when you have time.

I hope you two are happy together.

I hope I shall be courageous always.

I hope you guys enjoyed supper, because this is going to be my last trip.

I hope this will be a lesson to you.

Debbie Woolrich, age nine, remains in the wind but there's little hope she's alive.

Every once in a while, things turn out the way you hope that they will.

Finally, we have a brief respite but I hope to God they catch him soon.

I hope you find this trip a little more comfortable than the last.

There are the people who hope the future will be better.

There was no hope of recovery.

I hope Adrienne marries a man who will give her the help she deserves.

I hope not the way they did the last time.

The sun is shining brightly to-day and I hope we shall go to ride if the roads are dry.

I just hope they escaped.

Pony's name was Mollie and I had a nice ride on her back; I was not afraid, I hope my uncle will get me a dear little pony and a little cart very soon.

I hope it is good news?

I hope it will cure him.

I hope she is not lonely and unhappy.

The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.

But I hope you will at least believe it to be possible.

I hope our kind friend Dr. Ellis will come too, and take Tom in his arms.

Hope alternated with despair.

As it is, not only has she left us, and particularly Prince Andrew, with the purest regrets and memories, but probably she will there receive a place I dare not hope for myself.

I hope you got your money.

But when Christ opened to me how He was tempted by the same devil, and overcame him and bruised his head, and that through Him, and His power, light, grace and spirit, I should overcome also, I had confidence in Him; so He it was that opened to me, when I was shut up and had no hope nor faith.

Christ, who had enlightened me, gave me His light to believe in; He gave me hope which He himself revealed in me; and He gave me His spirit and grace, which I found sufficient in the deeps and in weakness."

I hope Fauntleroy take me to see a very kind queen.

He was still the hope of Israel, but the hope too was only to be read in books, and these were interpreted of a future which was no longer the ideal development of forces already at work, but wholly new and supernatural.

In its ultimate form the Messianic hope of the Jews is the centre of the whole eschatology, embracing the doctrine of the last troubles of Israel (called by the Rabbins the "birth pangs of the Messiah"), the appearing of the anointed king, the annihilation of the hostile enemy, the return of the dispersed of Israel, the glory and world-sovereignty of the elect, the new world, the resurrection of the dead and the last judgment.

There is now little hope of any important discovery of classical manuscripts.

This dramatic representation of the sufferings of Christ is not a survival of a medieval mystery or miracleplay, but took its rise from a vow made by the inhabitants in 1633, with the hope of staying a plague then raging.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 soon changed the course of all trade with the East, and in a few years the sending of tea per sailing ship round the Cape of Good Hope was a thing of the past.

The crown of Portugal based its case against England on the cession of territory contained in a well-known treaty with the monomotapa (1629), and stated that this monarch's dominions then extended nearly to the Cape of Good Hope.

All such passages are frequently called Messianic; but the term is more properly reserved as the specific designation of one particular branch of the Hebrew hope of salvation, which, becoming prominent in post-canonical Judaism, used the name of the Messiah as a technical term (which it never is in the Old Testament), and exercised a great influence on New Testament thought - the term" the Christ "(6 xpccrros) being itself nothing more than the translation of" the Messiah."

But this proof that the true kingdom of God could not be realized in an earthly state, under the limitations of national particularism, was not the final refutation of the Old Testament hope.

The conduct of the final arrangements with Messrs Baring and Hope, which made a definitive financial settlement between France and the allies possible, was left entirely to him.

The third bride was sickly and unsympathetic, and from her Sigismund soon lost all hope of progeny, to his despair, for being the last male of the Jagiellos in the direct line, the dynasty was threatened with extinction.

These and other elaborate efforts, however, failed to bring about the return of the king to Hanover, though the Guelph party continued to agitate and to hope even after the Franco-German War had immensely increased the power and the prestige of Prussia.

As a fact, the commanders-in-chief on the East Indies and Cape of Good Hope stations were instructed that in consequence of the great practical difficulty of proving - at ports so remote from the scene of war operations as Aden and Perim - the real destination of contraband of war carried by vessels visiting those parts, directions were to be given to the officers concerned to cease to search such vessels, and to merely report to the commander-in-chief at the Cape the names of ships suspected of carrying contraband, and the date of clearance.

We might then hope to particularize or modify these conditions so as to put them into more complete agreement.

This is done in the hope that some theoretical foundation may then be found for the equation.

The first stage of his education was passed at a school kept by "Peggy Paine," a relation of the well-known author of the Age of Reason, after which he entered the Annan academy, taught by Mr Adam Hope, of whom there is a graphic sketch in the Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle.