"Hopeful expectation" refers to a positive and optimistic feeling about something that we are looking forward to happening or achieving.
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with hopeful expectation, then, that one turns to a book written by an author who claims to have no religious or antireligious beliefs and wants to investigate this issue only because it throws light on the way a scholar's methods determine her results.
En route to the eschaton, the Christian community lives
in hopeful expectation of the final consummation of the lordship of God over the entire world.
«I think God gave Christianity a redemptive feel, a feel of reconciliation, a feel of
hopeful expectation through his desire to save wayward, broken people like us.
It also opens new opportunities for other gifts, because it
creates hopeful expectations of how God might really want to work in a situation, not what He has to do.
The Good Dinosaur is the rare dinosaur movie that has managed to
stir hopeful expectations among film critics (its troubled production history aside).
Hopeful expectations for the future play an important role in the positive development of youth, including youth contributions to society.
If I have succeeded in doing this, I will have more than passed
my hopeful expectations.
As we replay this happy vignette in our mind's eye, our dream gains momentum, reinforcing
our hopeful expectations of what is to come.