Hope

Hope: hope

Function: verb

Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.  Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.  To hope is to wish for something with the expectation of the wish being fulfilled, a key condition in unrequited love.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much.  It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

                                                                                                                         ...Franklin D. Roosevelt