"Higher Than Hope" is the third single released by Daryl Braithwaite from his third studio album, Rise.

Braithwaite promoted the single in US from 18 June to 31 July 1990 and the music video was filmed in Los Angeles.

[2] According to an interview conducted shortly after the release of the Rise album, Braithwaite titled the song after the Nelson Mandela biography of the same name,[3] based on lyrical ideas from song co-writer and producer Simon Hussey.

Hussey had first drawn inspiration for the tune from watching a newscast showing riots in South Africa.

Braithwaite felt that the title "Higher Than Hope" was consistent with the message that both he and Hussey were endeavoring to convey with the song, namely the notion of, as Braithwaite describes, going beyond "just wishing about" the resolution of conflict, "like a...I guess, very idealistic [song], in a sense.