hoping (?.)

• appetitive
• aspiring
• assured
• confident
• desiderative
• desireful
• desiring
• desirous
• eager
• expectant
• fond
• full of hope
• hopeful
• hormic
• in good heart
• in hopes
• lascivious
• libidinal
• libidinous
• lickerish
• lustful
• needing
• of good cheer
• of good hope
• optative
• sanguine
• tempted
• undespairing
• wanting
• wishing