Board Thread:General Discussion v2.0/@comment-26573135-20151209120813/@comment-27581425-20170728185234

HoPe can be taken to context with plenty of evidence spread throughout.

1. Sans is one of the examples that HP can be defined as hope, he has given up hope to find an exit/way to return thus, making his hp in genocide is 1.

2. In the scene where all the monsters is tied up by flowey, flowey damages you till 1 HP left. From there on, monsters such as toriel, papyrus, undyne, alphys, sans and asgore gives you HOPE by protecting you from flowey's attacks making you feel hopeful that you can survive, by doing so increases your HP, quote from papyrus "Just do what i would do, BELEIVE in you"

3. Fighting Undyne (Neutral) shows that she is full of hope (alot of HP)  cause she beleives that she can defeat you, but if you keep attacking her, undyne then felt the slightest of fear thinking that she will lose and cause your attacks to be much stronger because she is losing HOPE of Winning.