"expecting success" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence like this: "The team was expecting success, but unfortunately the result was a loss."
As Hemery wrote: "Sportsmen do themselves so much harm expecting success or expecting failure and rehearsing the twin imposters in their mind.
No matter what reasons one has for building social networks and online communities, however, they are certainly going to have to design the networks and communities effectively before expecting success.
With its extensive experience in retrofitting homes in Britain, the Mark Group is expecting success in United States markets like Philadelphia, where the business is largely the province of small local contractors.
Regarding prospects for Iraq, a majority of opinion leaders believe that the United States will fail to establish a stable democracy, while the general public was more optimistic, with 56percentt expecting success.
"We expect interest in Western holidays to grow," said Ed Place, Hallmark's group managing director for the Asia Pacific Region, adding: "We are expecting success over time because there is strong interest among the Chinese in quality, in global top brands and in gift giving".
Google just hired Ray Kurzweil to ramp up their investment in artificial intelligence, and although nobody has yet built a machine with the computational power of the human brain, at least three separate groups are actively trying, with many parties expecting success sometime in the next century.
