PEOPLE recently asked Gov. Palin about her daughter Bristol’s wedding. “Wedding next summer, is that right?” Sandra Sobieraj Westfall inquired.

“Um,” Palin said, “hopefully before that. But Bristol turns 18 in a few days. That’s what we wanted her to wait for: 18 and a decision on her own about how she’s going to forward — her and Levi — at this point.”

Besides forgetting to include her future son-in-law, the high school dropout, Palin made another misspeak in this response.

Hopefully means in a hopeful manner or filled with hope. A candidate who is confident she’ll win awaits election results hopefully. A well-prepared student awaits his grade hopefully.

But when you’re using hope as a rough synonym for desire, use a form of to hope paired with that. Gov. Palin hopes that her daughter will be married before the summer. She hopes that Bristol’s relationship with Levi is seen as a serious one.

We hope that the two young people really want to get married. (And that they don’t name their child Zamboni.)