verb
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)].
I hope to succeed.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
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.
I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise.
To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
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.
I hope you all the best.
noun
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.
After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.
The actual thing wished for.
A person or thing that is a source of hope.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
The virtuous desire for future good.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
noun
A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.