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Hope Things Feeling Desire Expectation Future I President

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H___ is a feeling of desire and expectation that things will go well in the future.Hope is a feeling of desire and expectation that things will go well in the future.
Now that he has become President, many people once again have hope for genuine changes in the system.
But Kevin hasn't given up hope of being fit.
Consumer groups still hold out hope that the president will change his mind.
Thousands of childless couples are to be given new hope by the government.
word hope
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verb
If you hope that something is true, or if you hope for something, you want it to be true or to happen, and you usually believe that it is possible or likely .
She had decided she must go on as usual, follow her normal routine, and hope and pray.
He hesitates before leaving, almost as though he had been hoping for conversation.
I hope to get a job within the next two weeks.
The researchers hope that such a vaccine could be available in about ten years' time.
'We'll speak again.'—'I hope so.'
'Will it happen again?'—'I hope not, but you never know.'
If you say that you cannot hope for something, or if you talk about the only thing that you can hope to get, you mean that you are in a bad situation, and there is very little chance of improving it.
Things aren't ideal, but that's the best you can hope for.
I always knew it was too much to hope for.
...these mountains, which no one can hope to penetrate.
The only hope for underdeveloped countries is to become, as far as possible, self-reliant.
The car was smashed beyond any hope of repair.
noun
Hope is a feeling of desire and expectation that things will go well in the future.
Now that he has become President, many people once again have hope for genuine changes in the system.
But Kevin hasn't given up hope of being fit.
Consumer groups still hold out hope that the president will change his mind.
Thousands of childless couples are to be given new hope by the government.
If someone wants something to happen, and considers it likely or possible, you can refer to their hopes of that thing, or to their hope that it will happen.
They have hopes of increasing trade between the two regions.
The delay in the programme has dashed Japan's hopes of commercial success in space.
My hope is that, in the future, I will go over there and marry her.
If you think that the help or success of a particular person or thing will cause you to be successful or to get what you want, you can refer to them as your hope .
...England's last hope in the English Open Table Tennis Championships.
He was one of our best hopes for a gold at the Commonwealth Games.
inflections hopeshopinghoped
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