Ok, so in my point of view, we always hope to have something that we want. We keep wishing and hoping that good thing will come to us. I think, instead of saying "I hope", why don't we say "I expect"?
I expect to have a higher salary. I expect to have a better job. I expect to have what I deserve. I expect to live a better life.
That is how the universe works for us, by giving us what we expected.