hope--
achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side*, buoyancy, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, dream, dream, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise*, fortune, gain, goal, hopefulness, longing, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, utopia, wish
believe--
accept, accredit, admit, affirm, be credulous, buy*, conceive, conclude, consider, count on, credit, deem, fall for*, have, hold, lap up*, opine, posit, postulate, presume true, presuppose, reckon on, regard, rest assured, suppose, swallow*, swear by, take it, think, trust, understand
inspire--
affect, animate, arouse, carry, cause, commove, elate, embolden, endue, enkindle, enliven, exalt, excite, exhilarate, fire up*, galvanize, get*, give impetus, hearten, imbue, impress, infect, inflame, influence, inform, infuse, inspirit, instill, invigorate, juice, motivate, occasion, produce, provoke, quicken, reassure, set aglow, set up, spark, spur, start off, stimulate, stir, strike, sway, touch, trigger, urge, work up
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