The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - hopen.

1) desire, wish, expectation, yearning, hankering, craving, longing, fancy; ambition, (day) dream: It was always my hope that you would go to university. 2) prospect, promise, expectation, expectancy, confidence, anticipation, assumption, security, faith, conviction, belief, trust: We had given up hope of being rescued. --v. 3) aspire, count or rely on or upon, anticipate, contemplate, foresee, look forward to, expect, await, wait: After all these years, he is still hoping to meet the girl of his dreams. 4) trust; wish, want, desire; Dialect expect: I hope my ship will come in soon. I hope to see the last of her tomorrow.