So, Sarah and I — my wife — walked over to the public library, which is four blocks away, on Pacific Street, and we got the OED, and we looked in there, and there are 14 definitions of hope, none of which really hits you between the eyes as being the appropriate one.
Entonces, Sarah y yo — mi esposa — caminamos hasta la biblioteca pública, que está a cuatro cuadras, en Pacific Street, y conseguimos el OED (Oxford English Dictionary), allí buscamos, y allí encontramos 14 definiciones de la esperanza, ninguna de las cuales se destaca por ser la apropiada.