Wish/hope/others

Hello, Pastel
I agree with you that we shouldn't buy just anything we see/hear. I prefer books in general, but I use search engines on occasion (not when it comes to grammar, though, unless I find something written by an author I've heard of and whom I can be sure is good).
But I can't say I fully agree with your comment about native speakers. I understand that you would expect a native speaker of any langage to have a good command of their mother tongue but, unfortunately, that isn't always the case. Sometimes, it's more than just a person's inability to provide a grammar rule; you will find people who can't use their own language correctly or even appropriately. It happens in my country too, with my first language. You sometimes hear teachers -of any subject- who speak badly and spell even worse.
Which brings me to something you said in your post:
"Being a ESL/EFL teacher, I have to be nit-picky at learning your language."

English is not my first language, Pastel! Spanish is; I'm Argentinian, and I am, like you, an ESL/EFL teacher... which means I have problems with English as well, sometimes.

Also, I understand what you said about your students asking questions whose answers you may not know. About 18 years ago, I used to worry about that too. But there is no way I could possibly know everything so, eventually, I stopped worrying. Today, if I'm asked a question I can't answer, I simply say "I don't know", and I promise my students to find out for next class. Sometimes I ask them to do research and try to find the answer themselves (I do my own research too, though, every time I cannot answer a question).
So you're not my student here, we're both teachers and students at the same time.

And don't tell me you're sorry, because I don't believe you are!! You enjoy giving me a headache every now and then. ~laughs~


Now, about "hope", both sentences are correct. I know that hope is used in progressive tenses sometimes (at least in the present progressive and the past progressive).
But I'm not sure about the difference in meaning, if any. Perhaps when you use a progressive tense you sound more "confident" that what you hope for will happen? This is just a wild guess.

I looked up "hope" in a dictionary for students and I found examples in the present and the present progressive with the same meaning.

Sorry I cannot be very helpful here.

Miriam