hoping Definition

hope
noun

1. A desire for something, with some confidence or expectation of success.

Thesaurus: faith, assurance, belief, expectation, confidence, optimism; Antonym: despair, pessimism.
2. A person, thing or event that gives one good reason for hope.
3. A reason for justifying the belief that the thing desired will still occur.
4. Something desired or hoped for.

Example: His hope is that he will pass his exams
Thesaurus: ambition, anticipation, aspiration, desire, dream, goal, wish, promise.

verb hoped, hoping

1. To wish or desire that something may happen, especially with some reason to believe or expect that it will.

Thesaurus: trust, reckon on, rely on, expect, anticipate, await, desire, contemplate, foresee, desire, long, dream, pray; Antonym: despair.
Form: hope for something (also)
intr
2. To have confidence.

Idiom: hope against hope

To continue hoping when all reason for it has gone; to hope in vain.

Idiom: Some hope! (what a hope!, not a hope!)

colloq
There's no chance at all that what has been said will happen.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hopa.