Hydrogen bonds are similar to ionic bonds because they both involve the attraction between opposite charges. ... This creates one atom with a negative charge, called an anion, and one atom with a positive charge, called a cation. The attraction between these charges hold the atoms together in an ionic bond.
Hydrogen bonds are inter-molecular bonds. The key difference between hydrogen bond and ionic bond is that ionic bonding exists between permanent anions and cations, whereas hydrogen bonds exist between partial positive and partial negative charges
