is,
To Extend, To Reach Forward.
Hope is a desire of some good, and at least a slight belief of obtaining it. Hope always gives pleasure or joy.

...But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation... For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 and 9