0 to want something to happen or to be true, and usually have a good reason to think that it might: --
It's good news, I hope.
[ + to infinitive ] They hope to visit us next year.
I hope (that) she'll win.
[ + (that) ] She's hoping (that) she won't be away too long.
1 something good that you want to happen in the future, or a confident feeling about what will happen in the future: --
I don't hold out much hope of getting (= I don't expect to be able to get) a ticket.
I didn't phone until four o'clock in the hope that you'd be finished.
We never gave up hope (= stopped hoping) that she would be found alive.
The situation is now beyond/past hope (= unlikely to produce the desired result).
She's very ill, but there's still hope/we live in hope (= we think she might be cured).
They have pinned (all) their hopes on (= they are depending for success on) their new player.
Young people are growing up in our cities without any hope of finding a job.
[ + that ] Is there any hope that they will be home in time?
Is there any hope of getting financial support for the project?
2 the feeling that something desired can be had or will happen: --
3 to express the feeling or wish that something desired will happen: --
But each introduces important ideas, and makes a real contribution to debates that one hopes will continue.
I hope that this will help to explain the many and various definitions of the concept of successful ageing.
Age-related differences in hope scores were also found in this study.
The physicians agreed totally, and simply claimed that the intervention sought by the parents had no reasonable hope of promoting that end.
The prospect of eight levels of attainment in the revised curriculum of 2000 held out little hope for a more reasonable approach.
Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promote abdication of control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.
Perhaps it was too much to hope that it could have been otherwise.
As teachers perhaps that is one of the things we can hope for.
