How do you use the word "hope" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hope": Hope is not a strategy. I hope he'll be able to come! I'd like to see him.

Hope Meaning

/ˈhəʊ̯p/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].

verbTo intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].

Sentence Examples

Hope is not a strategy.

I hope he'll be able to come! I'd like to see him.

All we can do now is wait and hope.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

promise trust desire

Antonyms:

despair

CEFR Practice Quiz

Despite the bad weather, they still ____ for a sunny day tomorrow.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Despite the many difficulties they faced, they never lost ____ that things would improve.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn; further etymology unclear. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian, West Frisian hoopje (“to hope”), Cimbrian hòffan (“to hope”), Dutch hopen (“to hope”), German, Luxembourgish hoffen (“to hope”), Vilamovian höfnan (“hope”), Yiddish האָפֿן (hofn, “to hope”), Danish håbe (“to hope”), Norwegian Bokmål håpe (“to hope”), Norwegian Nynorsk håpa, håpe (“to hope”), Swedish hoppas (“to hope”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long." — 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

"The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll." — 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

"He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"I hope in thy word." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:81:

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms xlii:11:

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