hope

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
2. v. Archaic To have confidence; trust.
3. v. To look forward to with confidence or expectation: We hope that our children will be successful.
4. v. To expect and desire. See Synonyms at expect.
5. n. A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
6. n. Something that is hoped for or desired: Success is our hope.
7. n. One that is a source of or reason for hope: the team's only hope for victory.
8. n. Christianity The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.
9. n. Archaic Trust; confidence.
10. idiom. hope against hope To hope with little reason or justification.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To entertain or indulge an expectation of something desired.
2. To have confidence; trust with earnest expectation of good.
3. To desire with expectation; look forward to as desirable, with the expectation of obtaining: with a clause (with or without that) or, less commonly, a noun as object.
4. [Hope is also loosely used as synonymous with desire, long for, or wish.]
5. To expect; regard as likely to happen: not implying desire: with a clause as object.
6. To imagine; have an impression; think: with an effect of irony: as, I hope I know what I am talking about.
7. n. Expectation of something desired; desire accompanied by expectation.
8. n. Confidence in a future event, or in the future disposition or conduct of some person; trust, especially a high or holy trust.
9. n. That which gives hope; one who or that which furnishes ground of expectation or promise of desired good; promise.
10. n. The object of hope; the thing hoped for.
11. n. Expectation, without reference to desire; prognostication.
12. n. Synonyms Reliance, dependence.
13. n. A hollow; a valley; especially, the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth green slopes: nearly equivalent to comb.
14. n. A mound; a hill. [Prov. Eng.] This word occurs in several place-names, as Easthope, Kirkhope, Stanhope, etc.
15. n. An inlet; a small bay; a haven.

Wiktionary

1. n. The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
2. n. The actual thing wished for
3. n. A person or thing that is a source of hope
4. n. The virtuous desire for future good
5. v. to want something to happen.
6. v. to be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
7. v. to expect and wish

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. n. A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
3. n. A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.
4. n. One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
5. n. That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
6. v. To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for.
7. v. To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
8. v. To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
9. v. To expect; to fear.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. expect and wish
2. n. one of the three Christian virtues
3. n. United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)
4. n. someone (or something) on which expectations are centered
5. n. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
6. v. intend with some possibility of fulfilment
7. v. be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
8. n. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
9. n. a specific instance of feeling hopeful