hope vs prospect

hope

noun
  • A person or thing that is a source of hope. 

  • A sloping plain between mountain ridges. 

  • A small bay; an inlet; a haven. 

  • A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe. 

  • The virtuous desire for future good. 

  • The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. 

  • The actual thing wished for. 

verb
  • To wish. 

  • To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. 

  • To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. 

  • To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. 

prospect

noun
  • A hope; a hopeful. 

  • Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 

  • The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 

  • A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 

  • The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 

  • A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 

  • Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team. 

  • The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. 

  • A potential client or customer. 

  • The façade of an organ. 

verb
  • To search, as for gold. 

  • To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location. 

How often have the words hope and prospect occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )