What is the difference between might and may?"

[Cap1034]

I hope you might come home soon.
I hope you may come home soon.

What is the difference?
I would like a native speaker's opinion.

 

[bhaisahab]

I hope you might come home soon.
I hope you may come home soon.

What is the difference?
I would like a native speaker's opinion.

The first is better than the second but I find neither of them very natural.

 

[Cap1034]

Do they mean the same thing?

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I don't feel that your sample sentences are very natural. I think you mean to say "I hope that you will come home soon."

Also you should know that "might" is the past of "may".

X says, "I may come home soon."
X said that he might come home soon.

When these words are used to express uncertainty or possibility they are largely interchangeable.
It is then a question of degree and in this respect "might" is considered by some to express less certainty than "may".

 

[Tdol]

There are times when it could work- if, say, the person is in hospital and not free to leave, I could use I hope you may come home soon.

 

[Cap1034]

In the situation you just gave me, I could use either may or might without chancing the overall meaning?

 

[Tdol]

I would use may, with the idea of being allowed to leave.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I don't think the original sentence needs a modal at all. "I hope (that) you come home soon" works just fine.