盼头

盼头 always pairs with 有 (yǒu, 'have') or 没 (méi, 'not have'): 有盼头 ('there's hope, things are looking up') vs. 没盼头 ('there's nothing to look forward to'). Note the neutral tone on 头 — the suffix turns the verb 盼 ('to long for') into a concrete noun 'thing-longed-for'.

memory

Compare with similar -头 nouns: 想头 (xiǎngtou, 'thoughts/ideas'), 念头 (niàntou, 'a notion'), 苦头 (kǔtou, 'suffering'). The 头 suffix nominalizes feeling/state verbs into colloquial nouns.