In Scripture, hope is not used in the same way as it is in the common vernacular—today’s language. We use the word in our day to refer to something that we would like to see happen, but we have no guarantee that it will take place. In the Bible, hope is a deferred certainty; it has expectancy with assurance connected with it.
In Romans 5:22By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (Romans 5:2), Paul speaks of "the hope of the glory of God," which has to do with the believer's future glorification at the Lord’s coming (the Rapture). It is something that the believer is looking forward to with certainty. It will definitely happen—we just don't know when. This glorious end of being with and like Christ is the Christian’s hope. When we first believed the gospel and received the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we were put in hope of our eventual glorification. Paul refers to this in Romans 8:2424For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (Romans 8:24), stating that we have been "saved in hope." (The KJV says that we are saved "by" hope, but it should read "in" hope.) This means that when we first trusted Christ as our Saviour, it was in view of our having this final aspect of redemption. Thus, when we were "saved," it was "in hope" of the full and final thing that is coming.
Knowing the glorious future that lies ahead for us sustains us in the path, because the thing hoped for is steadfast and sure. In hope we have been saved, and in its power we live. It gives us “patience” to wait for it (Rom. 8:2525But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (Romans 8:25)). It has been said that faith and hope are good travelling companions for the Christian in his wilderness pathway through this world, and this is true. But at the coming of the Lord (the Rapture), we will part ways with those companions, and enter heaven with the Lord where love will abide alone. We will not need faith and hope there.