Hope is: expectation, anticipation, looking, aspiring, yearning, relying, depending, reckoning, divine.
Desire combined with expectation. You expect that something you want will happen. It suggests a feeling of trust or confidence. A promising prospect that an outcome will be favorable.
“Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.” Sydney Smith
“There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing, but we all do and call it hope.” Edgar Watson Howe
It is the child on Christmas Eve.
It is the dog right before his owner returns home from work.
It is the moment before the first date.
It is creative person when beginning a new project.
It is the believer stretching his or her faith.