'Hope' in the Bible

so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift [which comes from the Holy Spirit], as you eagerly wait [with confident trust] for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ [when He returns].

Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.

To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every one of these ways I may save some.

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

She bears up under everything; believes the best in all; there is no limit to her hope, and never will she fall.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.