Ambition vs. Hope — What's the Difference?

An eager or strong desire to achieve something, such as fame or power.

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation."Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness, and despair.

The object or goal desired

To wish for a particular event that one considers possible

Desire for exertion or activity; energy

(Archaic) To have confidence; trust.

Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.

To desire and consider possible

(countable) An object of an ardent desire.

The longing or desire for something accompanied by the belief in the possibility of its occurrence

A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.

An instance of such longing or desire

(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.

A source of or reason for such longing or desire

(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Often Hope(Christianity) The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

(Archaic) Trust; confidence.

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.

A cherished desire;

To wish.

A strong drive for success

The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

Have as one's ambition

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

The virtuous desire for future good.

A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.

One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.

That which is hoped for; an object of hope.

To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; - usually followed by for.

To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; - usually followed by in.

To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.

To expect; to fear.

A specific instance of feeling hopeful;

The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled;

Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future;

Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered;

United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903)

One of the three Christian virtues

Expect and wish;

Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes;

Intend with some possibility of fulfilment;