overhope

Etymology

From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.

overhope means excessive hope or anticipation; presumption. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

OVERHOPE — [Noun/Verb] Excessive or presumptuous expectation; the act of hoping beyond the bounds of probability. From Middle English overhope, oferhope, formed within English from the prefix over- (meaning "excessively") + hope (from Old English hopian, "to hope"). Unlike "presumption," which strides forward with arrogant entitlement, or "optimism," which denotes a steady, sunlit disposition, overhope is the quiet, interior inflation of possibility until it crowds out all other realities. It is the farmer planting in a drought, the gambler's certainty on the penultimate card, the patient interpreting a routine delay as a sign of miraculous news—the private, physical ache of a future already felt and therefore already mourned.

noun

Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.“If the good turn out less than you hoped for, good though it be, yet because it is not so good, it seems to you more like a loss than a gain, by reason of the overhope.”
Hopefulness; sanguineness.

verb

To hope excessively; presume.“If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.”
To hope constantly.