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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hope·ful a.
 1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
    Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited.   --Hooker.
 2. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. “Hopeful scholars.”
 -- Hope*ful*ly, adv. -- Hope*ful*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hopefulness
      n 1: full of hope
      2: the feeling you have when you have hope [ant: hopelessness]