hopeful

Bright-eyed and hopeful, she had become a national celebrity in her home country, even appearing on a TV variety show.

With a smile, and many renewed expressions of thankfulness, the hopeful tradesman paid his penny.

Hopeful as youth, careless as the wind, it sang in gladness and in trust.

"I am glad you are so hopeful," he said; and he went off into his laboratory.

But that morrow came at last, and with it rose Oliver, strengthened and hopeful once more for the trial that lay before him.

Some of these people were returning, but most of them pressed on, hopeful of striking some spot that was awaiting them.