Hope setting sun inspires girl visiting university (9)
I believe the answer is:
ruritania
'hope setting' is the definition.
'ruritania' can be an answer for 'setting' (I have seen 'romantic setting' mean 'ruritania' so perhaps 'setting' could also mean 'ruritania'). I'm not certain of the 'hope' bit.
'sun inspires girl visiting university' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'sun' could be 'tan' (both can mean to get a sun tan) and 'tan' is found in the answer.
'university' could be 'u' (abbreviation for university) and 'u' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ruritania that I've seen before include "romantic setting" , "Fictitious small kingdom" , "Fictional central European kingdom" , "romantic situation" , "mythical land" .)