GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: source:platinumgmat After meeting together near Mediolanurn

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After meeting together near Mediolanurn in 313, Roman Emperors Constantine Augustus and Licinius Augustus issued The Edict of Milanin the hopes to ending years of internal religious strife and the persecution of minorities. The Edict expanded religious toleration and ordered the return of property confiscated from Christians, even if it had been subsequently resold.

A) in the hopes to ending
B) in the hope to ending
C) with the hope to ending
D) with the hope of