Hope vs. Believe — What's the Difference?

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.

Accept that (something) is true, especially without proof

To wish for a particular event that one considers possible

Hold (something) as an opinion; think

(Archaic) To have confidence; trust.

To accept (something) as true or real

To desire and consider possible

To consider (someone) to be truthful or accurate in what they are saying

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

To expect or suppose; think

An instance of such longing or desire

To have religious faith

A source of or reason for such longing or desire

To have faith, confidence, or trust

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 consider something to be important, worthwhile, or valuable

(Archaic) Trust; confidence.

(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).

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

(transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.

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

(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

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

To opine, think, reckon.

To wish.

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

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

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

(countable) The actual thing wished for.

To think; to suppose.

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

Accept as true; take to be true;

The virtuous desire for future good.

Judge or regard; look upon; judge;

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

Be confident about something;

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer;

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

Credit with veracity;

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;