Hope is a city in southern Dickinson County, Kansas, United States.

[5] For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans.

In 1857, Dickinson County was established within the Kansas Territory, which included what became Hope.

In 1871, a group of about forty people, led by Newell Thurstin, began planning a townsite, named Hope after one of his sons.

[6] David Jacob Eisenhower, the father of President Dwight David Eisenhower, lived in a 160-acre (0.65 km2) ranch near Hope from 1878 until his enrollment at Lane University in Lecompton, and then he moved to Hope.

The partners were leading civic boosters for Hope for years, with the community development mostly led by Good and the socially reclusive Eisenhower co-funding some projects.

The arrival of the railroad one year before, brought access of bustling Chicago to tiny Hope.

[citation needed] In early 1886, Eisenhower and Good organized a fundraiser among businesses to open an opera house in Hope.

[7]: 174 In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva (3 miles west of Strong City) through Hope to Superior, Nebraska.

In late 1888, Good abandoned Hope, and the Eisenhower family continued the store.

The United States Census Bureau reports a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.01 km2), all land.

[8] The climate has hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[9] The 2020 United States census counted 317 people, 146 households, and 82 families in Hope.

[2][3] The community is served by Rural Vista USD 481 public school district.