hope

something that might help someone keep going, but just makes failure feel a lot worse if it happens.

it was hope that let him keep trying to make things work out with the girl, but it was also what made him feel like shit when things didn't.

by fencingbandodewman13 August 9, 2010

Hoping

Seeking and believing with ones own thoughts a specific event, item, or idea. To yern for something to happen or come about.

He is hoping the world will soon change.

by dsxf June 30, 2008

hope

to want the unseen, even when the unseen is un-probable.

I hope it is true, even though is probably isn't

by Darkends March 27, 2008

hopeful

A fan of Carrie Fletcher, aka itswaypastmybedtime.

Person 1: I love Carrie Fletcher!
Perdon 2: Oh! I never knew you were a hopeful!

by :)!!!!!! February 2, 2014

hope

1. noun a feeling of confidence and all-is-not-lost

2. verb to feel confident and know that there is still a chance

3. noun a belief, or, more preferably, one's dreams

There's hope; there's always hope, no matter what happens.

Leo has to hope his invention doesn't explode again or he's doomed.

Hope is our dreams; hope is the slimmer of chance that keeps us going.

by Future Echo December 31, 2016

hope

"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."
-Raistlin Majere

I hope I can pay this month's rent.

by shinjitsu June 7, 2005

the hope

A moment when something that you had ruled out as now impossible suddenly looks likely only for it to let you down.

Your tennis player is 2sets down, but gets a break up in 3rd set and wins the set, he gives you the hope, but loses the 4th set 6-0

by manafana November 13, 2011