Some places "hope" elpis is used . . .
Act 2:26-27 "Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
His hope was certain, God had promised.
Act 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Rom 8:19-21 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:24-25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Col 1:4-5 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Col 1:25-27 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
1Th 4:13-15 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Not all places give the contextual cues to ascertain the meaning specifically, but each of these places reveal Biblical "hope" to be more that the wistful hope Oh I hope I hope, instead reflecting the certainty of what is hoped for.
We have the hope - the expectation of something this is actually going to happen - that Jesus will bring with Him those who sleep in Him. Not this one, or that one, like, maybe him, and maybe not him, rather, those who sleep in Him, He Will bring - we have that hope.
We have a hope laid up in heaven. Not, maybe laid up in heaven, rather, it is.
We wait patiently for what we hope for . . . knowing we will receive it.
Our hope is for the resurrection of the dead. We know it will be.
Rom 8:19-21 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
This one above is significant, in that it speaks of the one who subjected creation to futility has having a hope. It was God who did this, according to Solomon in Ecclesiates. God has a hope. Not a wistful Oh I hope I hope, rather, He knows exactly what will happen. And He calls this a "hope".
Certain expectation of the good things God has promised to us. Resurrection. The resurrection of our loved ones in Him. The restoration of creation.
Christ in you, the hope of Glory.
How can Christ in you end any other way? Are you stronger than He?
Much love!