hopeless vs hoping

hopeless

adj
  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. 

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

hoping

adj
  • Filled with or inspiring hope. 

verb
  • transport-hiking, train-hiking 

  • I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow. 

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