Synonyms and related words :
Maecenas, abettor, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, admirer, advocate, aficionado, aid, angel, anticipation, apologist, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, backer, backing, belief, buff, carriage, carrying, certainty, champion, cheerful expectation, confidence, contemplation, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, defender, dependence, desire, doomed hope, encourager, endorser, expectancy, expectation, exponent, fair prospect, faith, fan, favorer, fervent hope, friend at court, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, imminence, lover, mainstay, maintainer, maintenance, moral support, paranymph, partisan, patron, prayerful hope, presumption, probability, promise, promoter, prospect, prospects, protagonist, psychological support, reception, reliance on, sanguine expectation, second, seconder, sectary, security, security blanket, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stock, store, subsidy, subvention, support, supporter, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, sustainer, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, sympathizer, thought, trust, unastonishment, upholder, upholding, upkeep, votary, well-grounded hope, well-wisher