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“No matter what you believe or don’t believe, I think it’s important that people feel like there’s a glimmer of hope,” he says.

These devices and services have excited consumers hoping for better insight into their health and lifestyle choices.

We can't hope to transition the way we produce and eat sugar overnight.

From Salon

Trump reacted to Ibarra's guilty verdict, writing on Truth Social that he hopes the outcome of the trial "can bring some peace and closure to her wonderful family who fought for justice".

From BBC

Perhaps the best we can hope for in some of these agencies is that they'll flounder about for a while without any serious results.

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What are other ways to say hope?

To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. The verb expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? Await (wait for) something implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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