Hope in Cursive

Start with the capital H: two tall downstrokes joined by a small loop at the middle, the second ending in a tail. Its tail runs straight into the o, so the pen stays down. The o is an oval closed at the top with a short exit stroke at the midline; it hands over to the p with a short bridge at the midline, so the p starts high instead of from the line. The p is a short upstroke, a downstroke below the baseline, then a bowl drawn back up that closes on the baseline; it runs from the baseline straight into the e. The e is a small loop drawn from the baseline up through the midline and back down, and its exit stroke finishes the word.

Nothing is added after the word: there is no i, j, t or x to dot or cross. A common slip in Hope is stopping p at the baseline instead of below it, which turns it into a small n.