This paper is based on my ongoing multi-year fieldwork with Christian organisations supporting the homeless and precariously housed in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The UK has the highest rates of homelessness in the developed world (Burn-Murdoch 2024; OCD 2023). The number of homeless has increased rapidly since austerity in the 2010s and more recently in the wake of Covid and the current cost of living crisis. I chose Bradford as the site of this research because Bradford is a deprived city with the highest violent crime in Europe. It has very little infrastructure to support its homeless and thus Christian charities and churches provide roughly 80% of food provision in the city. Faith is deeply intertwined into the lives of practitioners supporting the homeless, and (evident from my fieldwork) the lives of the homeless themselves. Through my work, it has been clear how provocative Christian hope is within the lives of my interlocutors, both as that which is shocking and that which provokes real change for individuals and the city. Using the words of my interlocutors, I challenge De La Torre's (2017) call to embrace hopelessness on behalf of those experiencing inequality. Through a form of anthropology informed by liberation theology, I share and take the hopes of my homeless interlocutors seriously exploring how hope can resurrect agency, provide divine dignity and offer a path out of despair. In this paper, I draw both on the anthropology of hope (Miyazaki 2004; Crapanzano 2003, Mattingly 2010, Pettit 2023) and the theology of hope, most prominently proposed by Moltmann in his Theology of Hope (1964).