Timeline for ‘hope of sth.‘ or ‘hope for sth.’
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| Feb 9, 2018 at 8:52 | comment | added | joiedevivre | Interesting. I would probably say "hope for a cure" pretty much all of the time, but it's true that "hope of a cure" doesn't sound wrong to me. All I can say is that it sounds much more skeptical, as in She believes there is hope of a cure, but I highly doubt it. "For" works in that context, too, though, and I'd still be more likely to use it. Or if not skeptical, at least more clinical and neutral. For sure, it seems to be talking more about whether there's a possibility of a cure, without taking true "hope" into consideration. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 8:36 | comment | added | Eunice | Many thanks for your answer! Here is another pair of examples (from Merriam Webster’s Advanced Learner’s Dictionary): she believes there is hope of / for a cure. The dictionary includes either collocation in this example. What would you think of it? | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 7:29 | history | answered | joiedevivre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |