Hope, previously known as Ranzau, is a small settlement in the Tasman District of New Zealand.

Hope began as a German settlement, founded by many of the families on the barque Skjold, which left Hamburg on 21 April 1844 and arrived in Nelson on 1 September.

The voyage was underwritten by German nobleman Count von Rantzau [de]; in appreciation, Carl Kelling, an early farmer and Count von Rantzau's representative, gave his homestead the name "Ranzau", a name used for the entire village until it was renamed after Jane Hope, another early settler.

[3] The German influence survives in Ranzau Road, which itself houses Ranzau School (dating from 1848) as well as a Lutheran church (established in 1849) opposite the newer Hope Community Church.

[4] Today the settlement remains largely rural, dominated by farms and orchards.