Well, I hope these are right.

1. Sometimes hope and want can be used similarly, but they are different.  To go along with the holiday spirit, you can both hope for a puppy for Christmas and want a puppy for Christmas.  However, there is less greed associated with hope.  But wanting something; now, that's all greed.

2. I guess I didn't quite know the feeling of true hope until freshman year.  A close friend of mine was struggling with suicide.  We all did everything we could to help her, but over weekends, all you can do is hope.  You hope her family will realize what is going on; hope that she knows how much you care about her; and you hope that you will see her Monday.  These feelings of hope make you realize how much you care about someone or something.  If the feeling becomes strong enough, it becomes your reality.

3. Hope is that feeling when you want everything to turn out for the best, no matter what.  Expectations for the fantastic results of events are centered upon one outcome, and if that outcome becomes impossible, hope is lost.

4. Usually, to egg on this feeling of hope, something of importance needs to be at stake.  You, then, want a certain outcome to occur.  This want turns into need, quite stronger and more dramatic.  Then, if you feel strongly enough about the event, this need transforms into hope.  Hope is the most mighty of the feelings.  Once hope comes, it doesn't disappear unless the outcome is achieved...or the outcome is made impossible.  Then all hope is lost.   

5. Okay, so you really want something, but you know it won't happen.  However, you ask your parents anyways.  You're mom responds with a 'maybe!' Oh no.  Hope is triggered at this point.  There's no turning back now.  You've avoided the dreaded 'NO.'  So, now in your mind, that maybe is a yes.  You don't stop hoping for that moment when your wish is granted.  But, after repeated begging, you're parents tell you no.  Now your hope has fallen to the floor, rolled around in circles, and fallen down that vent.  It's lost. Probably forever.  Leaving you with a temporary depressed feeling.  Uh oh.

6. You're heart begins to ache.  Yes, actually ache for something to happen.  What you hope for starts to be the only idea in you head all day.  During that test, you have no concentration, except on that one event.  It takes over your life.  Everything you do reminds you of that, and you transform into a walking shipwreck.  What you hope for better happen soon, or you'll explode.  It basically eats you alive, until, the opposite happens.  After that happens, you sink into darkness.  All hope has vanished, leaving you to deal with the effects.

HAVE FUN GUESSING. (insert an excited emoticon here)