Hope vs. Expectation

Hopenoun

The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

Hopenoun

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

Hopenoun

(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

Hopenoun

The virtuous desire for future good.

Hopenoun

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

Hopenoun

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Hopenoun

(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

Hopeverb

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

Hopeverb

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

Hopeverb

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

Hopeverb

To wish.

Hopenoun

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Hopenoun

A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

Hopenoun

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.

Hopenoun

One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.

Hopenoun

That which is hoped for; an object of hope.

Hopeverb

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.

Hopeverb

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

Hopeverb

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.

Hopeverb

To expect; to fear.

Hopenoun

a specific instance of feeling hopeful;

Hopenoun

the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled;

Hopenoun

grounds for feeling hopeful about the future;

Hopenoun

someone (or something) on which expectations are centered;

Hopenoun

United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903)

Hopenoun

one of the three Christian virtues

Hopeverb

expect and wish;

Hopeverb

be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes;

Hopeverb

intend with some possibility of fulfilment;

Hope

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: and Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness, and despair.

Expectationnoun

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Expectationnoun

That which is expected or looked for.

Expectationnoun

The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.

Expectationnoun

The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.

Expectationnoun

(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.

Expectationnoun

(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.

Expectationnoun

The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectationnoun

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Expectationnoun

That which is expected or looked for.

Expectationnoun

The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.

Expectationnoun

The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

Expectationnoun

The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectationnoun

belief about (or mental picture of) the future

Expectationnoun

wishing with confidence of fulfillment

Expectationnoun

the feeling that something is about to happen

Expectationnoun

the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values