hope
verb
to want and expect something to happen or be true
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to think that something is likely to happen or succeed
to have a reason to want to stay alive
to have hopes and dreams that are unlikely to become real
to be hopeful that something will happen
to have a very strong hope that something will happen, so that this influences what you do
to hope very much that someone or something will succeed when everyone or everything else has failed
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