Belatedly: some more vivid examples of "hope":

• From the movie Aliens (1986), jung Evcyrl ertnvarq jura fur urneq Arjg fpernz in the scene where fur tbrf ba gur erfphr zvffvba.
• From The Order of the Stick: during the exploration of Girard's tomb, the difference between Roy's attitude here and Roy's attitude here.
• Think back to an occasion when you were playing some game or level within a game or the like such that:

  1. You thought you had a good probability of winning at first, and...
  2. Small thing after small thing going against you caused that probability to fall to the point to the point that...
  3. You ceased giving a serious effort to win. At this point, you had lost hope.