HOPES

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

"I am still hoping that all will turn out well."

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

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

The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

"After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise."

The actual thing wished for.

A person or thing that is a source of hope.

"We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table."

A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

A small bay; an inlet; a haven.