What is "hopefully"

Usage examples of "hopefully".

Others milled happily around Alec, slapping him with their plumed tails and sniffing hopefully at the swans hanging at his saddlebow.

In the end Axel wiped his hands on his apron and poured a cup of ale, sending it over with the boy, who peered at Julian hopefully from behind a curtain of sleek brown hair.

Though hopefully not absolutely necessary, thought Tad grimly as he watched Bap, remembering his plans if Fedya should decide to cooperate.

She picked up the nearest puppy, who had blundered up against her foot and was nosing it hopefully.

As he approached the center of the causeway, Diddy saw as he had a few moments before hopefully expectedthat there was somebody in a little transparent structure that jutted out from the metalwork.

Dekant Dorst had gone into, although hopefully she had long since left.

One or two people, knowing that the Gifts often went by families, hopefully asked Gair questions, too.

There was the chug-chug-chug of the fishing fleet just slipping into the bay, gulls thickening like a halo around them, and the one-eyed gaseosa vendor setting up his cart hopefully, unfolding his little deck chair, and then promptly falling asleep.

Wearing Hoplite II recon armor, he was lowered by cable into the tunnel, with the intention of making his way back toward the City and, hopefully, locating the catacombs.

Hopefully it was lying low in the system, still trying to open it up for Huer himself.

But how to say these thoughts of mine, how to word them without seeming to be betraying those who have come here from their own lands to attempt to form something new and, hopefully, better than the sorry kakistocracy Rome has projected of the most of the last century?

Hopefully, Delmot opened the nomination slip that was handed to him, as though wishing it contained a name like Orvill, Laverock, or Secane.

Emma mumbled hopefully although in reality she held out very little hope of that being the case.

Operation Phantom is to identify and eliminate Hashim Nidal before he can carry out his next attack, and hopefully dismantle his organization once and for all.

When it hopped into view, he turned back to Ola and gazed hopefully at her backpack.