Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
hope (n.)
when combined with a preposition usually takes either of or for, as in There’s little hope of his passing the course; there’s little hope for her, either. In, on, and that clauses can also occur with hope, especially in the idioms in [the] hope[s] of, with [the] hope[s] of, and in [the] hope[s] that, as in She tried again, in [with] the hope[s] of persuading them and She did it in [the] hope[s] that she’d succeed.
