different between overhype vs overhope

English

Etymology

over- +? hype

Verb

overhype (third-person singular simple present overhypes, present participle overhyping, simple past and past participle overhyped)

1. (transitive) To promote or publicize excessively.

English

Etymology

From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- +? hope.

Noun

overhope (uncountable)

1. Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.
   • 1859, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, The works of Francis Bacon: Volume 7:

     If the good turn out less than you hoped for, good though it be, yet because it is not so good, it seems to you more like a loss than a gain, by reason of the overhope.

2. (Britain dialectal) Hopefulness; sanguineness.

Verb

overhope (third-person singular simple present overhopes, present participle overhoping, simple past and past participle overhoped)

1. To hope excessively; presume.
   • 1919, The Country gentleman: Volume 84:

     If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.

   • 1992, David G. Moursund, International Society for Technology in Education, The technology coordinator:

     I'll cast this observation a little too broadly to make the point clearer: many principals "overhoped" that computers would have miraculous effects on all students exposed to them even if only for a few minutes per week, and now finding [...]

2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To hope constantly.