desire, anticipation, expectation, sureness, eagerness, confidence, wish, faith, optimism, yearning, contemplation, presumption, aspiration.

await, wish, trust, assume, anticipate, expect, contemplate, yearn, intend, rely, desire, want, aspire, dream of, believe, presume.

compete, apply, claim, seek, aspire, petition, bid.

expectation, covetousness, acquisitiveness, itch, amorousness, longing, greed, urge, hunger, need, wish, yearning, craving, lust, eagerness, passion, ardency, desire, fondness, thirst.

hunger, fancy, want, lust, long, covet, wish, need, hanker, grasp, crave, thirst, pine, itch, yearn, expect, welcome, desire.

goal, concern, vision, Leslie Townes Hope, break, gain, fortune, dream, apprehend, hopefully, no news is good news, consent, access, support, a ray of light/comfort, watch, commit, pardon, entrust, confide, look for, choice, bet, bob hope, achievement, trust, lust after, take to, hold, future, swear, belief, have your heart set on (doing) something, ideally, promise, end, if I may say (so), prop, prayer, forecast, opening, investment, accept, bank, may, I hope not, let's hope, pardon me, perhaps, opportunity, possibilities, intrust, light at the end of the tunnel, utopia, pious hope, foretaste, endurance, window of opportunity, look forward to, go for, seem, I'd like to think (that), mainstay, strength, I would prefer it if, reward, try for, purpose, with any luck, scope, do you mind?, excuse me, I trust (that), the initiative, chance.

That had been her hope. - "The Turnstile", A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason.

" Oh, dear, I hope it isn't wrong. - "Mortal Coils", Aldous Huxley.

You're a dear, good old soul, Denton, and I hope we may never part. - "The Mynns' Mystery", George Manville Fenn.

dashing hopes, common hops, record hop, common hop, European Hop, hop garden, hop marjoram, take a hop, eastern hop hornbeam, old world hop hornbeam.