New Hope is a city in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 987 at the 2020 census.. It is portion of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Originally known as Antioch, New Hope incorporated in 1974 to avoid an annexation try by South Pittsburg, which most of the supplementary city’s residents opposed. The name “New Hope” was taken from a local church and cemetery. It is located on the eastern shore of the Tennessee River at the Alabama/Tennessee confess line. Early settlers and travelers reached New Hope from the western shore by the South Pittsburg Ferry (called “Sharon”) on the river until the construction of the Shelby Rhinehart Bridge (Blue Bridge) in 1981.

Author William Least Heat-Moon mentions New Hope, Tennessee in Blue Highways: A Journey into America, published in 1982 by Little, Brown and Company, chronicling the author’s 12000-mile vacation in remote places re the United States. Festival Opera presented Carlisle Floyd’s “Susannah,” July 12 and July 14, 2019 at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA. Dubbed as “an American fable of innocence, lust, and social consequence,” the opera centers on the main character, 18-year-old Susannah Polk, a typical young entering womanhood in the quiet mountain town of New Hope, Tennessee, when she finds herself bereft of hope as she becomes the object of ruthless and malicious gossip.

New Hope is governed by an elected body of aldermen and a mayor. The City Hall of New Hope is located at 2610 Highway 156. Across the highway is located the headquarters for the New Hope Fire Department, a trained society of volunteers in the community. The New Hope City Park was formerly at the rear the Fire Station.