'Hoped' in the Bible
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often, and talked with him.
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: