What does hope mean

Crossword clues for hope

hope

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

hope

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a chance/hope/possibility of escape

▪ The river offered our only hope of escape.

a vain hope

▪ Young men moved south in the vain hope of finding work.

abandoned...hope

▪ Rescuers had abandoned all hope of finding any more survivors.

anger/confidence/tension/hope etc drains away

▪ Sally felt her anger drain away.

beacon of hope

▪ The education program offers a beacon of hope to these children.

cherish a hope/an idea/a dream etc

▪ willingness to re-examine cherished beliefs

cling to the hope/belief/idea etc (that)

▪ He clung to the hope that she would be cured.

crumb of comfort/hope/affection etc

▪ There was only one crumb of comfort – Alex hadn’t said anything to Jeff.

destroy sb’s hopes

▪ Losing the game destroyed the team’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

express your hopes/desires (=say what you hope or want to happen)

▪ Nadia expressed her hopes about remaining in San Diego County with her two children.

false hopes

▪ I don’t want to give you any false hopes.

forlorn hope

▪ the forlorn hope of finding a peace formula

fulfill...hopes

▪ It was then that the organization finally began to fulfill the hopes of its founders.

full of excitement/energy/hope etc

▪ Lucy was a happy child, always full of life.

▪ He was full of praise for the work of the unit.

glimmer of hope

▪ a glimmer of hope for the future

have high hopes/expectations

▪ Like many young actors, I had high hopes when I first started out.

hope and pray

▪ I hope and pray that this is a misunderstanding.

hope for a miracle

▪ I knew I would probably never walk again, but I couldn’t help hoping for a miracle.

hope not

▪ ‘Is Mark still sick?’ ‘I hope not.’

hope so/think so/say so etc

▪ ‘Will I need my umbrella?’ ‘I don’t think so.’

▪ If you want to go home, just say so.

hopes and aspirations

▪ their hopes and aspirations for the future

let’s hope (that)

▪ Let’s hope he got your message in time.

lose confidence/interest/hope etc

▪ The business community has lost confidence in the government.

▪ Carol lost interest in ballet in her teens.

▪ Try not to lose heart become sad and hopeless – there are plenty of other jobs.

new hope/confidence/optimism etc (=hope etc that you have only just started to feel)

▪ a medical breakthrough that offers new hope to cancer patients

not hold out much hope/hold out little hope

▪ Negotiators aren’t holding out much hope of a peaceful settlement.

not hold out much hope/hold out little hope

▪ Negotiators aren’t holding out much hope of a peaceful settlement.

sb’s hopes and fears

▪ We each had different hopes and fears about the trip.

sb’s hopes/fears/plans for the future

▪ What are your hopes for the future?

shatter sb’s hopes

▪ Their hopes had been shattered by the outbreak of war.

squash rumours/hopes/reports etc (=say that a rumour etc is not true)

▪ The government was quick to squash any hopes of reform.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

let

▪ So let us hope that the association is long and fruitful.

▪ I would like to thank everyone for their efforts in 1993. Let us all hope for better things in 1994.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I only wish/hope

▪ I only wish I knew what I could do to help.

▪ And I only wish the world had a sense of the glamour like we had in the Sixties.

▪ At present I only wish to draw attention to a possible ambiguity in a crucial move.

▪ Exhibit A in defense of the caveman. I only wish Becker had taken questions from the audience.

▪ I am sorry your life is so burdensome, I only wish I could help in some way.

▪ I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview - I only wish we'd had longer.

▪ It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.

▪ It will suit Mrs Rochester perfectly. I only wish I were more handsome, as she's so beautiful.

▪ They were all very heartened that some one was at last taking an interest: I only wish I had had a tape recorder!

I should think/imagine/hope

▪ He said there might be one way, you know, I should think about it.

▪ I wouldn't mind. I should think he'd be very demanding.

▪ Interesting, I should think, with a name like Hamish.

▪ Look at my dad. I should think he's got half his lunch down his.

▪ Looking forward to getting back to your farm, I should think?

▪ Not for far, I should think - not if its nose has gone.

▪ Rather like seizure, I should imagine.

I swear/hope/wish/pray to God

a faint hope/possibility/chance etc

▪ I thought about letting it ring, but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally.

▪ If it can startle the predator in some way, there is a faint chance that the enemy may panic and flee.

▪ That uncertainty urges us to look beyond the present, with a faint hope to control our future.

▪ There remained a faint possibility that Newley would try to identify the person who collected the money.

a fond hope/belief

▪ That overcautious disposition was noticed long ago, but there was a fond hope that experience would cure it.

a ray of hope/light etc

▪ Amid the crushing disappointment of the general election there was a ray of light for the Conservatives.

▪ Besides, today there had been a ray of hope.

▪ But only when a ray of light attempts to pierce this darkness does the real, eerie action unroll.

▪ But the Red Or Dead catwalk show offered a ray of hope.

▪ Each time a ray of light passes through a lens it is slightly weakened.

▪ The Government's resignation is a victory, a ray of hope to take into the dark days ahead.

bereft of hope/meaning/life etc

▪ How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!

▪ These women were old and toothless at a young age, their eyes bereft of hope.

can only hope/wait etc

▪ Dagenham's employees can only hope that Ford does not resurrect the phrase in the 1990s.

▪ Hamilton can only hope he improves as much as Benes has since the Padres traded him.

▪ Like the steeplechase where Vronsky breaks his mare's back with reckless riding, you can only wait for the pistol shot.

▪ The scientists can only wait and hope.

▪ Users can only hope the vendors will apply the same effort to other unresolved technology issues.

▪ We can only hope Gilstrap won't push to have any of that text deleted.

▪ We can only wait and help each other and watch this dreadful plague spread.

▪ You can only hope they learned from their mistakes.

fondly imagine/believe/hope etc

▪ Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves.

▪ Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.

▪ The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine.

high hopes/expectations

▪ I had high expectations for this book.

▪ It is possible to be creative while still having high expectations of pupils.

▪ Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment.

▪ Salespeople require goals set for them with maximal clarity and hold high expectations for recognition for their accomplishments.

▪ There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.

▪ There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.

▪ There were a lot of high expectations.

▪ We had high hopes for television in those early days.

pious hope/wish

▪ But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope.

▪ But these were merely pious hopes.

▪ Criteria Unless there is a quantitative criterion there is no objective, only a pious hope of better times.

▪ The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.

▪ This may be a pious hope.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "Have we got enough money for the rent?'' "I don't know. I hope so.''

▪ Bob's hoping to travel to Africa next year.

▪ Even when everyone else thought he was dead, Julie never stopped hoping.

▪ I'm hoping for a better salary in my next job.

▪ See you soon, I hope!

▪ She could only hope and pray that Liza would be back to her normal self the next time she saw her.

▪ We hurried out of the building, hoping that no one would see us leave.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A gang leader could hope to rise up the hierarchy of a hive.

▪ Both areas are monitored round the clock by surveillance cameras and detectives are hoping that the hoaxer has been captured on tape.

▪ I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal.

▪ I enjoyed my time at Fontainebleau, especially wandering in the forest, hoping to see a wild boar.

▪ I said I hoped Oliver Ingraham was bringing Jasper lovely things to eat.

▪ It was hoped that, with more publicity, people would leave their cars at the village hall instead and walk.

▪ We hope that this book will help sportspeople accept their encounters with the sublime and uncanny.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

faint

▪ The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames.

▪ The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died.

▪ The former Chelsea man duly obliged with two headers to keep alive Rangers' faint hopes of a title challenge.

▪ The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season.

▪ Will the forgotten peasants suddenly find that some one has remembered them? Faint hope.

▪ His heart sank, his faint hope of creating an opportunity to escape crushed.

▪ Fabia returned to her room, but her faint hopes were already getting fainter.

▪ And Glentoran's win at Larne put the final nail in their faint qualifying hopes.

false

▪ I hate unidentified corpses - can't help thinking of women and children, living and waiting in false hopes.

▪ When you care about a dear departed show, a highly promoted new episode offers a kind of false hope.

▪ No, that was a false hope.

▪ Ecstasy to despair to false hope, et cetera.

▪ But having given Labour false hopes, will the media now make sure that Labour suffers from false despair?

▪ The family and others also cling to these times of false hope.

▪ Now the couple had expected it was dead and we gave them false hope.

▪ Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely.

forlorn

▪ For Coulthard, the prospect of posting a third successive Silverstone win looks a forlorn hope at best after another disappointing race.

▪ But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.

▪ Well, it had been a forlorn hope at best.

▪ Even they realise, however, that the real world makes that an increasingly forlorn hope.

full

▪ He arrived in Nice full of hope and, indeed, managed to secure a showing for both at Cannes.

▪ The old Citroen stopped, then continued momentarily. Full of hope, it steered around the corner.

▪ I can see the church steeple, the church I married in, full of hope.

▪ Far from it: he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans.

▪ Suddenly I was full of hope again, and I gave a great shout of happiness.

▪ A young girl in a strange city. Full of hopes and dreams, and excitement.

great

▪ Now he could go inward, freely, into his own mind, Ellen had great hopes for him.

▪ Observing these young people in action also gives me great hope.

▪ Some years ago you pinned great hopes on television as a means of promoting chess.

▪ It is also not a hospitable environment for advertisers, on whom great hopes for profit rest.

▪ These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string.

▪ Gerald Furr underwent the procedure Nov. 11 with great hopes.

▪ But was Bobby the great hope for a Democratic revival?

▪ It is indeed a message of the greatest hope.

high

▪ What started with high hopes for mutual support among poor countries was confounded by market forces.

▪ His teacher, who had founded the missionary school, had high hopes for his star student.

▪ There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.

▪ We had high hopes for television in those early days.

▪ She was an actress who, like the rest of them, had high hopes.

▪ Whatever Texas accomplishes in the weeks ahead, the Horns are a leg up on the high-hopes curve.

▪ There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.

▪ In only two months their high hopes and dreams of returning home had been dashed.

little

▪ At only 19 oz doctors gave her little hope.

▪ The Standing was in its ninth month, and there seemed little hope of compromise.

▪ There's little hope in this film - the forces of law are as bad in their way as the drug barons.

▪ And there was little hope that government intervention would bring about a more flexible cinema industry.

▪ Bloodied but unwilling to give up, he has little hope of winning Florida or any of the Southern state primaries Tuesday.

▪ Genetic modification is the latest fad-one that the authors give little hope.

▪ They go about their tasks with little enthusiasm, hope, or urgency.

only

▪ The only hope was to move to energy self-sufficiency.

▪ In the long term, Mr Heseltine said that privatisation was the only hope for the industry.

▪ But mad or not, you are my only hope, Meg.

▪ It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.

▪ And anyway, Ace was right: their only hope was to close with the enemy.

▪ The only hope then is rather like injecting antibodies into our own blood - a systemic fungicide.

▪ Our only hope is sponsorship but even here I feel that most corporations would prefer investment.

▪ That had been a hard time, Mrs Cruz said; there were three children and only hope to feed them on.

real

▪ And it's clear the new partnership up front gives real hope for United.

▪ Our only real hope lies with a vaccine.

▪ No real hope of doing that, of course.

▪ There is real hope, probably futile, that the second hike to 17.5 percent will somehow be wished away.

▪ His only real hope was to get Amaryllis to cross the Border with him.

▪ Then-then-there was that real hope of regular money.

▪ Research is offering patients real hope.

vain

▪ This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.

▪ In the last months of 1978 several of his former servants were arrested in this vain hope.

▪ It was usually a vain hope.

▪ But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely.

▪ Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her.

▪ But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope.

▪ Guided by a mournful bleating, he came across several groups of sheep, huddled together in the vain hope of safety.

■ VERB

abandon

▪ Instead, at this point Sartre at last abandons all hope of proving History as a totalization without a totalizer.

▪ To abandon hope should be a one shot deal; a man should not have to do it twice.

▪ She had long since abandoned that hope.

▪ Thus, there is still enough separation between the Goldens and the Jerseys to keep Warriors fans from abandoning hope entirely.

▪ She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white!

▪ At three in the morning, she abandoned any hope of getting to sleep.

▪ Nice lips, shame about the teeth. Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

▪ My consolation is in your ecstasy when you abandon hope, and there's nothing to be done.

bring

▪ He had brought it in the hope of finding a second-hand saddle of his own.

▪ The former Republican senator from Maine brings priorities that spell hope for companies worried about further cuts to military spending.

▪ The vaccine brings hope to 1,300 young children struck down by the Hib form of deadly disease every year.

▪ They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.

▪ It brought hope and a valuable point to the bottom of the table side.

▪ Such ritual brings no hope, and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful.

▪ It would probably be too slow to bring the hope now needed to avoid social unrest and possible collapse.

▪ I should not let them linger, wasting time, wasting money, until the spring brings them fresh hope.

dash

▪ That's why your father didn't want to dash your hopes unnecessarily.

▪ The building up and dashing down of his hopes.

▪ The current scandal could improve his chances-or prompt a crackdown that might dash any hope of his getting power.

▪ Blacking out at the restaurant had dashed those hopes.

destroy

▪ Antony has turned the tables completely and has now completely destroyed all hopes of the conspirators ever establishing themselves in Rome.

▪ In a few days, a few hours, war destroyed their hopes.

▪ What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.

▪ Perhaps the ending is meant as a sad acknowledgment that people often destroy their own brightest hopes.

▪ An opening round of 76 had destroyed his hopes of improving on his second place behind Ian Woosnam the previous year.

▪ Second, we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery.

▪ It destroys hope for a better life.

▪ A power vacuum would probably destroy his hopes for a smooth transition of authority.

entertain

▪ Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations.

▪ However, I do not encourage the hon. Gentleman to entertain high hopes in that regard.

▪ Most significantly on my sense of a distant but still valid national identity-until then I had entertained hopes of return.

▪ After this it is possible for labouring poets to entertain far greater hopes of public impact.

▪ Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored.

▪ Nor, until tonight, had he dared entertain any hope of release.

express

▪ Several times in his life Gandhi expressed the hope not to be born anew.

▪ Meanwhile they've expressed hope that all concerned will be left alone to put Hannah's death behind them.

▪ In announcing the victims fund, the banks expressed the hope that it would promote a more cooperative spirit in the negotiations.

▪ He expressed the hope that future good relations would help lay to rest the mistakes of the past.

▪ Even as Bancroft expressed this liberal hope, the lines were being drawn.

▪ We may pour out our hearts about the situation in which we find ourselves, expressing our trust, hope and confidence.

▪ He expressed a hope that we might meet again during the remaining two days of his stay and have a longer conversation.

give

▪ In 1095, Anselm had not yet given up hope of working amicably with the king.

▪ They give hope and help to those in need and a sense of joy and self-worth to us.

▪ I've never given hope much thought until now.

▪ But the pause gave hope to others.

▪ We're not giving up hope.

▪ But if the dove were crushed, they must turn back and give up all hope of the Golden.

▪ I'd almost given up hope that you'd ever see me as a girl ... a woman.

▪ When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act, he at last did something.

hold

▪ But they do hold out hope - sort of.

▪ Still, I held on to my hope.

▪ And he could hold out no hope of any financial assistance.

▪ When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she didn't hold out much hope of prising his purse open.

▪ I want Fairfax to tell me, but I don't hold out much hope.

▪ I don't hold out much hope though!

▪ Look, don't hold out too much hope that you're going to be successful in this.

▪ For if the landscape holds some hope to the left it brings with it threats from the right.

live

▪ I do not doubt that she wants to live and we all hope that she will.

▪ Mike looked at me appreciatively; he lived in the hope of intrigue.

▪ She lived in hope and dread.

▪ While you live, there is hope; while he or she lives, there is hope.

▪ But they lived in hope that they might be so blessed.

▪ Unlike other exiles, however, she didn't live in the half hope that she might.

lose

▪ But then generals have not lost hope altogether of clinging on to power.

▪ When people lose things of such magnitude, they easily lose hope too.

▪ The pain from the cold was very great, and I began to lose hope.

▪ She even hinted that she had remained a virgin, risking losing Jay rather than losing her hopes in life.

▪ We've lost hope...

▪ I thanked him for that, but I was losing hope.

▪ She had every justification not to lose hope, she reminded herself.

▪ If we had lost hope, the desert dawn would restore our faith.

offer

▪ Yet the theory and practice of community development can offer some hope in the matter of the control of health care.

▪ Forbes is not simply selling a flat tax; he is offering hope and confidence.

▪ Educational vocationalism does not seem to offer much hope for the reform either of education or of the labour market.

▪ People without any education at all seem to offer the best hope.

▪ To be sure, the new generation of flexible, individually controlled telecommunications technologies offers new hope for educational improvement.

▪ But at first glance, his own might have seemed to offer little hope of withstanding its seventy-five-ton impact.

pin

▪ He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle.

▪ He seems to pin his hopes on it.

▪ This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.

▪ City leaders are pinning high hopes for the future as well.

▪ Geller is pinning primary hopes on getting the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal on a procedural point.

▪ They pin little hope on the new Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke.

raise

▪ From April, child benefits are to be raised in the hope of encouraging parents to produce a few more babies.

▪ To raise her hope unnecessarily would be unforgivable.

▪ Her view of the interior of the shed was limited but what she did see raised her hopes.

▪ The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for the Republican presidential nomination is raising hopes and hackles.

▪ It is unfair on the candidates to raise their hopes unnecessarily, and is a waste of your own time.

▪ That would raise unjustified hopes and there had been no reciprocation.

▪ By exploring these events in detail, will we raise false hopes that athletics is a special path to mystic insight?