USS Western Hope (ID-3771) was a cargo ship of the United States Navy that served during World War I and its immediate aftermath.` Western Hope was laid down as the steel-hulled, single screw Design 1013 commercial cargo ship SS War Ruby by J. F. Duthie and Company in Seattle, Washington, for the Cunard Line.

Taken over by the United States Shipping Board and renamed SS Western Hope, she was launched on 29 July 1918 and completed late in September 1918.

The Navy assigned her the naval registry identification number 3771 and commissioned her at Seattle on 25 September 1918 as USS Western Hope (ID-3771).

[2][3] After loading a cargo of flour, Western Hope departed Seattle on 8 October 1918 and steamed via the Panama Canal to New York City, where she arrived on 7 November 1918, four days before the armistice with Germany that ended World War I.

[4][5] Western Hope departed Trieste on 16 March 1919 and steamed via the Strait of Gibraltar to Newport News, Virginia, where she arrived on 21 April 1919.