"happy expectation" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to an emotion of optimism or hopefulness that something good might happen. For example: "We all had a feeling of happy expectation as we waited for the results of the election."
The child, who had completed one year of kindergarten with honors, nodded in happy expectation.
A vast crowd assembled at Westminster in the happy expectation of seeing four bankers decapitated, only to watch the guilty men cheat death by opting instead to eat stupendous quantities of humble pie".
But the usual buzz of happy expectation that attends the 92nd Street Y's venerable Lyrics and Lyricists series was noticeably muted at this season's opening concert, "Rodgers &...: Inside Five Collaborations," on Saturday evening.
Happy expectation helps draw good things into your life.
In such rarefied circumstances, then, a brief statement of Albert's happy expectations for the big day would obviously be déclassé.
It's in the final moments of "Mama," when the threesome are roused out of their dreams, that Mr. Cuar n's offhand ability to startle finishes off the happy-ending expectations.
And her reality pales in comparison to those expectations, leaving her "reality – expectations" happy score coming out at a negative.
"He's happy to keep expectations low.
For many families, the "happy" and "merry" expectations can cause great stress and anxiety -- not just for you as an adult, but for your children, too.
The group's interpretation of "peace" is one that a lot of people would have trouble going along with, and burning flags is a weird way to convey that message, but the Neturei Karta seem happy to confound expectations.
Rock just so happens to have brought together the folk tradition of the poet balladeers with the virtuoso musicianship of the great lead-guitar players, and that happy confluence created the expectation in the minds of several generations of listeners like me that music should be played by people.
