Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: / That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (I Corinthians 13:13).

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: / Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.