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What's a nice way to express any of the following -

  * "Let's keep our fingers crossed"

  * "I'll keep my fingers crossed!"

  * (We / I) (are / am) keeping (our / my ) fingers crossed"
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What's a nice way to say "fingers crossed"?
Of course not all cultures cross fingers when wishing for something. As far as
I know crossed fingers don't signify anything in Japan.

The phrase "fingers crossed" would probably expressed using うまくいく "to go
well", e.g.

> うまくいきますように  
>  うまくいくといい(ね)

where the former is more formal and the second more conversational.
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As the other comments say, there is not really a literal translation but you
can get a some mileage using the verb "to pray", 祈る。 The exact form will vary
depending on context but following would work:

> Let's hope so. |そう祈ろう。
>
> Let's keep our fingers crossed. |みんなで幸運を祈りましょう。

My apple dictionary gives the following, which may help composing a longer
sentence:

> keep ［have］ one's fingers crossed|
>
> （人さし指の上に中指を交差させて）願いがかなうことを祈る；
>
> （…になるよう）願う, 祈る｟that節｠.
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Not so strong in Japanese yet, but wouldn't simple 頑張って （がんばって） do, in this
case?
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