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Hope is a city in Bonner County, Idaho, on the northeast shore of Lake Pend Oreille, and it had a population of 98 at the 2020 census, up from 86 in 2010.

Hope was incorporated on July 17, 1891, after the Northern Pacific Railroad moved its division point there from Montana in 1890, making Hope the center of railroad activity and at the time the largest city in the county.

In 1809 the explorer David Thompson built Kullyspell House near present-day Hope, the first fur-trading post and the first structure built by a white man in what is now Idaho.

The city covers 0.47 square miles at an elevation of 2,431 feet, and its ZIP code is 83836, which it shares with neighboring East Hope.

Hope was once a bustling railroad town of about 3,000 people while the railroad was being built, with much of the labor done by Chinese workers brought over under 25-year contracts, many of whom made their homes in Hope after the railroad was finished.

The historic Hotel Hope was built by Joseph M. Jeannot in 1897 and still stands overlooking Lake Pend Oreille.

In the 2010 census Hope had 86 people in 34 households, with a median age of 47 years.

Hope was the lifetime home of the artist Edward Kienholz, and the town is mentioned in the 2009 video game Prototype as a town used by the government to test a virus.

Lake Pend Oreille, on whose shore Hope sits, has 111 miles of coastline and covers 148 square miles, and it is the fifth deepest lake in the United States.