Hope is considering something a possible situation, combined with a desire for it. It may vary from something minor to longlasting hope for something big.
Examples include:
- hoping to get some object, or a job, or to get rich
- hoping for oneself or somebody else to get cured
- hoping to meet somebody (again)
- hoping to catch a train
- being in love, hoping that this is reciprocal
- very general: hoping to get happy
- hoping for eternal life
Hope is the only spirit that remained in Pandora's Box (actually a jar) when all the evils where taken out and obviously Pandora let it out as well.
There are also some places named Hope:
- Hope, England (in Derbyshire)
- Hope, British Columbia
- Hope, Arkansas (the birthplace of Bill Clinton)
- Hope, Maine
- Hope, Michigan
- Hope, North Dakota
- Hope, Rhode Island
Hope is also in use as an English surname. Celebrities with the name include Bob Hope.
The Hope Diamond is a famous blue diamond, supposed to be cursed. The "curse" is generally considered pseudoscience -- an urban legend.
There is also Hope programming language.