Lived religion views religion as a social and performative space shaped by personal experiences. Veneration of saints and seeking their help during illness were vital aspects of lived religion, with miraculous healing deeply embedded in the expectations of the infirm. This chapter examines hope as an emotional practice within this context, emphasizing the corporeal nature of late medieval and early modern lived religion. The human body served as both a means of communicating with the divine and a vessel for expressing divine power. Hope was culturally produced and performed in sacred encounters, fostering new cults and spiritual power. The analysis draws on hagiographic texts from Central and Northern Italy, dating from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries.