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Commenced his career as a lithographic draughstman with McLagan and Cumming in Edinburgh. Attended the Edinburgh School of Art under Hodder where he took a Gold medal in the National Examinations and the RSA Life School from 1893 until 1895 winning The Stuart Prize, Maclaine Watters Medal and the Chalmers Bursary. Later he studied at the Academie Juilen in Paris. His landscapes mainly focus on East Lothian and he often painted at East Linton in the Summer months. He exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibitions from 1887 until 1936. he became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1911 and an Academician in 1925. His first major commission came from Sir James Miller for the mural decoration of the Ballroom at Manderston House in Berwickshire. The house was extensively remodelled between 1902 and 1905 to designs by John Kinross ARSA at a cost of about £70,000. Hope was also commissioned before 1909 to paint figures in three of the panels in the dome in the apse of St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh by the then minister Very Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson whose gift to the congregation they were. Williamson became an HRSA in 1911.