Words similar to hoped

Example sentences for: hoped

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Klebold predicted: "Directors will be fighting over this story," and Harris hoped for Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino.
The health-care reform fell apart, and Clinton recently signed a welfare-reform law that, measured against what he first hoped to do, was a step in the wrong direction.
Iwasaki said, "[I judged the transition] better than I could have hoped for."
I suppose I hoped that the movie--which opened on Christmas Day in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for the Academy Awards and has been opening across the country over the last few weeks--would just go away.
Francis hoped for simplicity.