The phrase
"hopeful anticipation" means feeling excited and positive about something that is expected or hoped for in the future.
Full definition
By now, many people around the world are waiting with
hopeful anticipation of the next announcement regarding the Switch.
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in hopeful anticipation of occupation, and Caleb's courageous report against all the other Milquetoast spies who testify that against the stalwart occupants of the land they seemed in their own eyes like grasshoppers (v. 33).