A greater percentage of the XRP community believes the legal tussle between the SEC and Ripple would end in a settlement. Whereas some expect the lawsuit to be concluded with a verdict from the presiding Judge. Out of the 17,231 voters, 10,200 users (59.2%) said the case would be settled while 7,030 (42.9%) participants expect the case conclusion to come as a verdict from the judge, at the time of writing. 

A settlement is simply an agreement that ends a dispute and results in the voluntary dismissal of a court case. Therefore, a settlement in the Ripple-SEC lawsuit means that the SEC would have to agree that XRP is not a security which will result in the dismissal of the court litigation.