The phrase "a heightened expectation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increased level of anticipation or hope regarding a particular outcome or event.
Example: "With the release of the new product, there is a heightened expectation among consumers for innovative features and improved performance."
Alternatives: "an increased expectation" or "a raised expectation".
People live in such a heightened expectation of no privacy that even those facing the worst criminal charges feel compelled to speak up.
Last week, there was a heightened expectation that the Iraq Study Group would produce a set of recommendations that could win bipartisan approval and guide America out of the quagmire in Iraq.
There is a peculiar energy in the country right now, and a heightened expectation of violence: of the possibility that the police might be unleashed on communities, or that mass deportations might begin soon, as the President-elect has promised.
Secret video recordings or still-image capture can also violate the privacy rights of others where monitoring is in an area with a heightened expectation of privacy.
These early learning experiences in combination with individual vulnerabilities (such as low coping self-efficacy) are thought to contribute to a heightened expectation of threat and danger.
This ratio was chosen so as to increase the possibility of errors on no-go trials due to a heightened expectation of go cues.
According to the "non-state" camp, hypnosis is an intense focusing of the attention; the enhanced susceptibility to suggestion can largely be explained by social and cognitive factors, such as a desire to comply with the hypnotist and a sense of heightened expectation.
One condition of basic cable in the age of "Breaking Bad," which airs directly before "Low Winter Sun," is a sense of heightened expectation.
Though nobody could have foreseen just how special the fight would be, there was an air of heightened expectation before the first bell.
Meanwhile, we can only celebrate the meaning of last night's pilgrimage to the Olympic Park, the revived ride on the rocket train to a place of such heightened expectation and extraordinary deeds.
With no vacancies on the court in more than a decade, there is heightened expectation that the next president will have one or more opportunities to choose justices and shape the court for years to come.
