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This project contributes to research on digital religion by exploring developments in women’s religious identity, practice, and civil activism during wartime. Drawing on Brigit Meyer’s concept of aesthetic formation (2009), Nadia Zasanska examines women’s faith-based online communities as “spaces of hope”—digital venues where female believers exchange emotional support, care, and hope for a better future. These online venues function as safe spaces for women to engage in faith practices through sensorial experiences of the divine, experiments with (non)-religious rituals, and self-expression within a community of shared values. These spaces of hope bring together Ukrainian women from diverse religious traditions, geographical locations, and cultural backgrounds. Combining digital ethnography and fieldwork, the project analyses how these online venues of faith practice become spaces of hope, raising women’s resilience, solidarity, and resistance toward an unpredictable future.