The second son of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Bennett of Wallingford, Berkshire, he was born on 6 August 1606.
He bought the heritable position of the Sheriff of Clackmannan in 1738 from William Livingston and was commissioner in the Scottish parliament for Clackmannanshire in 1639, 1640, and 1641.
In 1639, and again in 1640, he was colonel of the troop raised by the College of Justice to attend General David Leslie as his bodyguard.
[1] Hope was prominent in opposing Charles I's demand for a public inquiry into "The Incident", and was the author of the compromise made between the king and the estates over the appointment of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun, as Lord Chancellor.
[1] In the parliament of 1643, Hope was member for Stirlingshire, but died that year on 23 August, at Edinburgh.