Andrew Kidd wrote:

Hi ... A friend has registered a star that she has named as "Hope", and
the only details that she has a RA12hrs 23mins 08sec Dec 4.74489 MAG
14.08

Simbad at
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pl
or
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fsam.pl
list no star at those coordinates
(12 23 8 +4 44 41.604)

But of course there still may be one...