Hope
Virtue as name
Hope is a given name, one of the virtue names that became popular among English Puritans.
It remains in steady use, more common for women than men: Hope was the optimist of the family.
Several American towns bear the name. (Lowercase hope is the feeling or verb.)
Personal name from birth
- femaleOffspring-bearing sex
- biblicalOf sacred texts
- EmilyLatin-origin feminine name
- GraceName or honorific
Faith · naming · christening · daughter · Arkansas · British Columbia · comedian · surname
Tendency to expect good
- faithTrust without proof
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- longingIntense, persistent desire
yearning · wish · desire · anticipation · confidence · trust · belief · encouragement
Address to deity
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- faithTrust without proof
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
blessing · afterlife · heaven · resurrection · deliverance · providence · divine · eternal
Sustained resolve despite obstacles
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- courageFortitude facing danger
- strengthPower to exert force
endurance · overcoming · recovery · healing · coping · breakthrough · light · tunnel
Sleeping mind's narrative
- visionAbility to see
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- tomorrowThe day after today
- ambitionDesire for achievement
goal · plan · horizon · opportunity · potential · promise · new beginning · fresh start
given name
Personal name from birth
Grace · Faith · naming · christening · daughter · Arkansas · British Columbia · comedian · surname · namesake
optimism
Tendency to expect good
- faithTrust without proof
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
longing · yearning · wish · desire · anticipation · confidence · trust · belief · encouragement · reassurance
prayer
Address to deity
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- faithTrust without proof
grace · blessing · afterlife · heaven · resurrection · deliverance · providence · divine · eternal · scripture
perseverance
Sustained resolve despite obstacles
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- courageFortitude facing danger
strength · endurance · overcoming · recovery · healing · coping · breakthrough · light · tunnel · dawn
dream
Sleeping mind's narrative
ambition · goal · plan · horizon · opportunity · potential · promise · new beginning · fresh start · possibility
Pandora
Mythological first woman
flame · spark · glimmer · ray · flicker · ember · lighthouse · dawn · spring · symbol
Hopedespair
Total absence of hope
hopelessness · desperation · despondency · dejection · gloom
Hopedoubt
Lack of firm belief
disbelief · skepticism · cynicism · fatalism · defeatism
Hoperesignation
Voluntary relinquishment of position
giving up · surrender · capitulation · defeat · fatalism
- high hopesStrong optimistic expectations
- I hopeExpress a wish
- last hopeFinal remaining possibility
- false hopeUnfounded expectation of success
- ray of hopeSmall cause for optimism
- glimmer of hopeFaint reason for optimism
hopeful, hopeless, hoping, hopes, hoped, hopefully, hopelessness, hopelessly, hopefulness