Verb

(hop)

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

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

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

* Bible, Psalms cxix. 81

I hope in thy word.

* Bible, Psalms xlii. 11

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.