hoped for

comparative more hoped for · superlative most hoped for · alternative hoped-for

1. desired; wished for.

   Unfortunately, the job opportunities they are seeking are often more hoped for than real, […]

   1968, Leonard E. Goodall, The American Metropolis, page 5

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   There had never before been a known case of fraudulent claim of this sort. The man received, not his hoped-for £4,000, but eighteen months imprisonment instead.

   1958 May 28, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “North Wales and the "Irish Mail"”, in Railway Magazine, page 310