Hope.-- river and loch, Durness par., NW. Sutherland; the river Hope (including the river of Strath More) flows 14 miles N. through Strath More and Loch Hope to Loch Erriboll 2½ miles NE. of Heilim Ferry; has salmon and trout; Hope, Loch, extends 6 miles N. and S.; Hope Lodge, near Hope Ferry, at the outlet of Loch Hope, is 8 m. W. of Tongue.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))