Hope is a town in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States, known for its historic character. The population was 2,102 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbus, Indiana, metropolitan statistical area.
The first settlement at Hope was made in 1830 by a colony of Moravians (people of the Protestant Moravian denomination) from Salem, North Carolina (now Winston-Salem), led by the Rev. Martin Hauser, after whom the town high school is named. Although a 1905 source claimed that the town was named for the optimistic spirit of its Moravian pioneer settlers, "Hope" is a common name for religious settlements, denoting hope in God's favor and the resurrection. The town was originally named Goshen, after the Biblical Goshen, but upon the establishment of a post office in 1834 the name was changed to Hope, as Indiana already had a town named Goshen. The town was founded to be a communal settlement like that of the two prominent Moravian settlements in the United States, Salem, North Carolina and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The model for these did not work for a farming community like Hope, and early on the decision was made to end community property and allow residents to own their own land. Soon thereafter the town was also opened to non-Moravians.
Frown down upon the days
When I was someone's puppet
Hear the sound of cries that weighed
So heavy as I suffered
A master plan for killing off
All we take for granted
Haunting ones who would not believe
In what you wanted
To find a friend, to free you from
The clutch of your black halo
Seem to find all the comfort
Knowing no tomorrow
Someone tell me just what have we become
Master of nothing, slave to the numb
Leaving a trace, you've seen the scars
Of all that we've been through
How many times has it fallen apart
Reminding me of you
You wanted it, you wanted it
A power plan, to feel alive
To save a soul, have control
But knowing no tomorrow
Someone tell me just what we have become