The phrase "hopeful year" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to express optimism or positive expectations for the upcoming year.
Example: "After all the challenges we faced, I truly believe that this will be a hopeful year for our community."
Alternatives: "promising year" or "optimistic year"
All Palestinians felt this disappointment, but in 2006, it was most pronounced among those who had reached adulthood during the hopeful years of the First Intifada.
Well, we're still remaining hopeful – years ago, I composed a letter to Nasa and offered the services of ZZ Top to be the lounge band aboard the space shuttle.
We do not learn in this book what happened in Ghana after the first hopeful years, or what became of Mr. Baako, but in his fragmentary, episodic way, Mr. Kapuscinski shows a continent sliding into governmental gangsterism, dependence on foreign aid, murderous tyrannies and urban populations with nothing to do.
In the hopeful years that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the universal triumph of liberal capitalism and democracy seemed assured; free markets and human rights would spread around the world and lift billions from poverty and oppression.
I think particularly in this age of Obama, it feels like we're treading backwards after a couple hopeful years.
Making the rounds of morning television news shows Tuesday, Sharon Bialek was asked repeatedly about her motives in coming forward against the pizza business executive and Republican presidential hopeful years after the incident of sexual harassment that she alleges.
Tiger Woods said he was more at peace with himself, and he was hopeful his year would not end without a victory.
Welby concludes by warning that the future is always tough and can be frightening, before wishing "a happy and hopeful new year" to all.
