Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hopeful

Hopeful , adjective

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. — Addison