expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith &c (belief) 484;
affiance, assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.
good omen, good auspices; promise, well grounded hopes; good
prospect, bright prospect; clear sky.
assumption, presumption; anticipation &c (expectation) 507.
hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace,
aspiration.
[person who is hopeful] optimist, utopian, utopist†.
castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne [Fr.],
le pot aut lait [Fr.], Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream;
dream of Alnaschar†; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage &c (fallacies
of vision) 443; fond hope.
beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash
of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver
lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in
Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel.
anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff &c (support) 215; heaven &c
981.
V. hope, trust, confide, rely on, put one's trust in; lean upon; pin
one's hope upon, pin one's faith upon &c (believe) 484.
feel hope, entertain hope, harbor hope, indulge hope, cherish
hope, feed hope, foster hope, nourish hope, encourage hope, cling to
hope, live in hope, &c n.; see land; feel assured, rest assured, feel
confident, rest confident &c adj.. presume; promise oneself; expect &c
(look forward to) 507.
hope for &c (desire) 865; anticipate.
be hopeful &c adj.; look on the bright side of, view on the sunny
side, voir en couleur de rose [Fr.], make the best of it, hope for the
best; put a good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face
upon; keep one's spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of
good heart, be of good cheer; flatter oneself, lay the flattering
unction to one's soul, catch at a straw, [Hamlet], hope against hope,
reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count one's chickens
before they are hatched.
[cause hope] give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope &c
n.; promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter,
tell a flattering tale; raise expectations (sentient subject);
encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden.
Adj. hoping &c v.; in hopes &c n.; hopeful, confident; secure &c
(certain) 484; sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated,
flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome†; utopian.
unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from
suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear,
exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair;
undespairing†, self reliant.
probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight
of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good
omen; auspicious, de bon augure [Fr.]; reassuring; encouraging,
cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose
[Fr.], rose-colored.
Adv. hopefully &c adj..
Int. God speed!,
Phr. nil desperandum [Lat.] [Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero
[Lat.], latet scintillula forsan [Lat.], all is for the best, spero
meliora [Lat.]; every cloud has a silver lining; the wish being father
to the thought [Henry IV]; hope told a flattering tale; rusticus
expectat dum defluat amnis [Lat.].
at spes non fracta [Lat.]; ego spem prietio non emo [Lat.]
[Terence]; un Dieu est ma fiance [Fr.]; hope! thou nurse of young
desire [Bickerstaff]; in hoc signo spes mea [Lat.]; in hoc signo vinces
[Lat.]; la speranza e il pan de miseri [It]; l'esperance est le songe
d'un homme eveille [Fr.]; the mighty hopes that make us men [Tennyson];
the sickening pang of hope deferred [Scott].