Spes

thumb|An ancient Roman coin with Spes on the reverse. Spes (Latin for "Hope") was worshipped as a goddess in ancient Roman religion. Numerous temples to Spes are known, and inscriptions indicate that she received private devotion as well as state cult.

==Republican Hope== thumb|right|200px|Columns from the Temple of Spes at the Forum Olitorium were incorporated into the [[San Nicola in Carcere church]] thumb|right|200px|The Temple of Spes with those of Pietas (goddess)|Piety and [[Juno Sospita at the Forum Olitorium, drawn by Lanciani]] thumb|right|200px|The area of the Forum Olitorium and Theater of Marcellus in the scale model of [[ancient Rome at the Museum of Roman Civilization]] During the Republic, a temple to "ancient Hope" () was supposed to have been located near the Praenestine Gate. It was associated with events that occurred in the 5th century BC, but its existence as anything except perhaps a private shrine has been doubted.