When our appetizers were served, our hopeful anticipation turned into happy satisfaction.

My hopeful anticipation has developed into frustration, impatience, despair and anger.

This one was called "Spring Rounds," in hopeful anticipation of warmer times.

He rested his hand on the transceiver's case and permitted himself a moment of hopeful anticipation.

I sat down and wrote one, in a fever of hopeful anticipation.

Monthly cycles of hopeful anticipation followed by depression when menstruation begins.

Despite the scale of the task ahead, hopeful anticipation abounds.

During the first week there was an improvement in the child's health, which justified the doctor's hopeful anticipations.

The people of the Kendra Valley were exhausted with hopeful anticipation.

A few dogs wagged their tails in hopeful anticipation.