"provocative hope" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is inspiring and serves as motivation for change or improvement. For example: The activist's message filled the crowd with a provocative hope that something had to change.
Then, in the early 1990s, a Usenet group took up the term to describe some users' gleeful baiting of the naive: posting provocative comments in hope of attracting an outraged "bite", then winding up their unwitting victim as thoroughly as possible.
One provocative theme Parsons hoped to foster conversations about is the relationship between art and commerce.
But here, too, American overreach has had a precipitating role with the latest laborious round of clearly doomed to fail peace talks spun up by Secretary of State John Kerry on the administration's behalf stirring up a provocative cocktail of hopes and fears alike.
These are all provocative questions, and I hope to be addressing each of them at some point -- the corrections policy first, certainly within the next couple of months.
Asked about the nearly 50percentt of the electorate that has expressed no preference in opinion polls, Prime Minister Mori, whose brief tenure in office has been marked by provocative comments, said he hoped they would "just sleep" on Election Day.
Mr. Hallsson said that he realized the statements were provocative, but that he hoped they would lead to discussion about how the rest of the world sometimes views the United States.
I have regretted them for many years since — not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don't reflect the person I am today or have been for some time".
The provocation proved provocative.
I think it is at least a unifying concept that I hope will be provocative, and perhaps lead to experiments and analysis that might really test this idea.
Peace told HuffPost he figured the article would be controversial -- not least due to his provocative language -- but he hoped it could take on a stigma about sexuality and people with disabilities.
