hopeful (n.)
- addict
- adolescent
- agape
- agog
- also-ran
- anticipant
- applicant
- aspirant
- aspirer
- baby
- beaming
- bright
- budding
- candidate
- cheering
- chiliast
- collector
- content
- devotee
- dud
- eager
- easy
- fair
- fancier
- fledgling
- forestalling
- freak
- glad
- glowing
- golden
- halcyon
- high
- hoper
- infant
- junior
- juvenal
- juvenile
- lover
- millenarian
- minor
- optimist
- perfectionist
- presumptive
- probable
- ready
- riant
- rosy
- sanguine
- sapling
- seeker
- slip
- smiling
- sparkling
- sprig
- stalking-horse
- stripling
- suitor
- sure
- teenager
- upbeat
- utopian
- votary
- waiting
- wanter
- wisher
- yearner
- younger
- youngster
- youth
hopeful (adj.)
- adolescent
- advantageous
- agape
- agog
- anticipant
- anticipative
- anticipatory
- apt
- aspirant
- aspiring
- assured
- auspicious
- beaming
- blithe
- blithesome
- bright
- budding
- certain
- cheerful
- cheering
- cheery
- confident
- content
- dud
- eager
- easy
- elated
- encouraging
- euphoric
- exalted
- exhilarated
- expectant
- fair
- fledgling
- flushed
- fond
- foreseeable
- gaping
- genial
- glad
- gladsome
- glowing
- golden
- halcyon
- happy
- heartening
- high
- inspiriting
- irrepressible
- junior
- juvenile
- laughing
- liable
- likely
- lover
- millenarian
- millennian
- minor
- odds-on
- optimistic
- pleasant
- predictable
- prepared
- presumable
- presumptive
- probable
- promising
- propitious
- pubescent
- radiant
- ready
- reassuring
- riant
- rose-colored
- roseate
- rosy
- sanguine
- sanguineous
- satisfied
- secure
- slip
- smiling
- sparkling
- sunny
- sure
- undisturbed
- unsurprised
- up-and-coming
- upbeat
- utopian
- verisimilar
- waiting
- winsome
- younger
