The article discusses problems of hope and the relation to life of representatives of technical specialties. Approaches to studying of hope as sociocultural and social-psychological phenomenon are briefly described. It is noted that the hope is the metavalue of human life. Authors emphasize that the fulfillment of vital events of any modality, both positive, and negative, leads to change of expressiveness of hope. In article on the basis of empirical data features of hope and the relation of experts of a technical profile to various stages of the life are analyzed.

Keywords: hope, spheres of hope, life satisfaction, relation to life, life events