high hopes

noun

: a strong feeling that something good will happen or be true

We had high hopes of winning the game.

Examples of high hopes in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Reaves has such high hopes because of the defensive intensity the Lakers have displayed in camp. — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Throughout the Western world, the twenties were a period of high hopes and big thinking about global peace; the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed by more than sixty nations, including the United States, intended to outlaw war altogether. — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Parton expressed high hopes for the afterlife in a 2019 podcast. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026

Those who call it home have high hopes for what the venue will become. — Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for high hopes

• antelopes
• biotopes
• cantaloupes
• envelopes
• epitopes
• gyroscopes
• horoscopes
• isotopes
• microscopes
• telescopes
• copes
• gropes