hope
verb
US  
 /hoʊp/
 
to express the feeling or wish that something desiredwill happen: 
[ I ] I’m hoping the company gives us a bonus this year.
[ + to infinitive ] We hope to see you soon.
[ + (that) clause ] I hope (that) his plane won’t be delayed.
(Definition of hope from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

EXAMPLES of hope

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I hope they're not all going to be driving pick-ups like yours.
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However, one might hope that the chapter prefaces or book structure would highlight key points of debate so that instructors and students could assess them.
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Internally caudillo warfare had set back any hopes of a truly national identity.
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First, our willingness to discount unlikely strategies varies with the desirability of the goal we hope to achieve.
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Unfortunately, one cannot hope to add an extensional conversion rule on inductive types, which would entail the computability of all isomorphisms of inductive types.
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Archaeologists study the former in the hope of understanding the latter.
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The hope then is that repairs and so on include useful information about the utterance as a whole.
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As teachers perhaps that is one of the things we can hope for.
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Perhaps it was too much to hope that it could have been otherwise.
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Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promote abdication of control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.
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The prospect of eight levels of attainment in the revised curriculum of 2000 held out little hope for a more reasonable approach.
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The physicians agreed totally, and simply claimed that the intervention sought by the parents had no reasonable hope of promoting that end.
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Age-related differences in hope scores were also found in this study.
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I hope that this will help to explain the many and various definitions of the concept of successful ageing.
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But each introduces important ideas, and makes a real contribution to debates that one hopes will continue.
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COLLOCATIONS with hope

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These are words often used in combination with hope.

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beacon of hope
New-style education appeared as a seemingly universal beacon of hope, particularly when it was meant to convey a reworked but "traditionally" inspired notion of morality.
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best hope
Transplantation tolerance appears to offer the best hope of achieving this degree of effectiveness and specificity.
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false hope
Although that proved to be a false hope, it was not a complete fantasy.
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Translations of hope

in Chinese (Traditional)
希望，盼望, 希望，祈望…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
希望，盼望, 希望，祈望…
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in Spanish
esperar, esperanza, esperanza [feminine]…
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in Portuguese
esperar, esperança, esperança [feminine]…
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