هناك أمل.

In this sentence, هناك works like the existential there is / there are in English.

Literally, هناك means there or over there, but in sentences like هناك أمل, it often introduces existence:

• هناك أمل = There is hope

So it is not just pointing to a place; it is helping express that something exists.

Because Arabic usually does not use a present-tense verb meaning is/are in simple sentences like this.

So where English says:

• There is hope

Arabic can simply say:

• هناك أمل

This is normal in Modern Standard Arabic.
If you wanted the past or future, then Arabic would use other forms, but in the present, the copula is usually omitted.

Because existential sentences like this normally introduce something indefinite:

• أمل = hope / some hope
• الأمل = the hope

After there is, English also often uses an indefinite idea:

• There is hope
• not usually There is the hope

So هناك أمل is the natural way to say that hope exists.

If you said هناك الأمل, it would usually sound unnatural for the existential meaning, and it could push the sentence toward a more literal locative sense, like the hope is there.

It would normally be أملٌ with tanwīn ḍamm:

• هناك أملٌ

That is because أمل is in the nominative case here.

In normal everyday Arabic writing, short vowels and case endings are usually not written, so you will commonly just see:

• هناك أمل

A common analysis is:

• هناك = an adverb of place (ظرف مكان) functioning as a fronted predicate
• أملٌ = a delayed subject/topic (مبتدأ مؤخّر)

So the sentence is a kind of nominal sentence.

You do not need to master that terminology to use the sentence correctly, but if you are studying grammar formally, that is the usual explanation.

A careful pronunciation is:

• hunāka ʾamal(un)

In pause, the final case ending is usually not pronounced, so you will often hear:

• hunāka ʾamal

A few notes:

• هنا has a long ā sound: hu-nā-
• هناك ends with -ka
• أمل begins with a hamza, so it starts clearly: ʾa-mal

A rough English-friendly guide is:

• hu-NAA-ka A-mal

Yes. هناك itself does not change for singular vs. plural.

For example:

• هناك رجلٌ = There is a man
• هناك رجالٌ = There are men
• هناك فرصةٌ = There is an opportunity
• هناك فرصٌ = There are opportunities

So in this kind of existential sentence, هناك works for both there is and there are.

Not if you want the normal existential meaning there is hope.

• هناك أمل = There is hope
• أمل هناك would sound more like Hope is there

So the second version makes there feel more like a literal location, not an existential expression.

For the meaning already given, هناك أمل is the right order.

They are very close in meaning.

• هناك أمل = There is hope
• يوجد أمل = There exists hope / There is hope

The second one uses the verb يوجد = to exist / be found.

In many contexts, both are natural.
A small difference in feel:

• هناك أمل often sounds a bit lighter and very common
• يوجد أمل can sound slightly more explicit or formal

Both are good Modern Standard Arabic.

A very common negation is:

• ليس هناك أمل = There is no hope

Another shorter option is:

• لا أمل = No hope / There is no hope

The difference is mostly one of style:

• ليس هناك أمل is a full sentence
• لا أمل is shorter and often stronger or more dramatic

• هنا = here
• هناك = there / over there

So:

• هنا أمل = There is hope here / Hope is here
• هناك أمل = There is hope there / There is hope

In existential sentences, هناك is especially common. It often feels less like a precise physical location and more like the English existential there is.

أمل is grammatically masculine in Modern Standard Arabic.

That matters when adjectives or verbs agree with it. For example:

• هناك أمل كبير = There is great hope

The adjective كبير is masculine singular to agree with أمل.

Even though hope is an abstract noun, it still has a grammatical gender in Arabic, and here that gender is masculine.