Hope is a town located on the Ponyville side of the Everfree Forest. It is home to the Hope Solar Array and an Ironshod Firearms factory.
Littlepip passes through Hope on her way from Ponyville to New Appleloosa at the very beginning of the story. It is here she first learns of the Ministry of Morale, Sparkle-Cola, "virtues," the value of pre-war currency (good only for buying Sparkle-Colas and collecting the caps), and hears a broadcast from Red Eye.