Adj. hoping &c. v.; in hopes &c. n.; hopeful, confident; secure &c.
(certain) 484; sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome[obs3]; utopian.
     unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from
suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair; undespairing[obs3], self reliant.
     probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of
land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure[Fr]; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose[Fr], rose-colored. 
     Adv. hopefully &c. adj. 
     Int.  God speed! 
     Phr. nil desperandum [Lat][Horace]; never say die, dum spiro
spero[Lat], latet scintillula forsan[Lat], all is for the best, spero meliora[Lat]; every cloud has a silver lining; “the wish being father to the thought” [Henry IV]; “hope told a flattering tale”; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis[Lat][obs3].
     at spes non fracta[Lat]; ego spem prietio non emo [Lat][Terence]; un
Dieu est ma fiance[Fr]; “hope! thou nurse of young desire” [Bickerstaff]; in hoc signo spes mea[Lat]; in hoc signo vinces[Lat]; la speranza e il pan de miseri[It]; l’esperance est le songe d’un homme eveille[Fr]; “the mighty hopes that make us men” [Tennyson]; “the sickening pang of hope deferred” [Scott].

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     #859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness. —­ N.
hopelessness &c. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression &c. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job’s comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.
     abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission &c. 725.
     hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation &c. (disappointment)
509.
     airy hopes &c. &c 858; forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon*
[U.S.]; goner*; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu[Fr]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus[Lat]. 
     V. despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope,
relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond &c. (be dejected) 837; jeter le manche apres la cognee[Fr].
     inspire despair, drive to despair &c. n.; disconcert; dash one’s
hopes, crush one’s hopes, destroy one’s hopes; hope against hope.
     abandon; resign, surrender, submit &c. 725. 
     Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au
desespoir[Fr], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable &c. (dejected) 837; broken hearted.
     unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening,
clouded over.
     out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable &c. 471; past