In his Comment this week about Al Gore, global warming, &c.:

Even the national pastime was in danger. “But,” Gore added hopefully, “I have faith in baseball commissioner George W. Bush when he says, ‘We will find the steroid users if we have to tap every phone in America!’ ”

There you have it. That’s how to employ “hopefully”; it means “with hope.” My mother taught me to say “with any luck” when the world’s bad influences whisper phrases like “Hopefully, I will win the Nobel Prize in Literature.” I pass that along to you, hopefully. If anyone is getting ready to recite that the English language is always evolving, I will globally warm them.