diff --git a/lib/mongoid/contextual/aggregable/mongo.rb b/lib/mongoid/contextual/aggregable/mongo.rb
index a7972ae0a2..a01de22db4 100644
--- a/lib/mongoid/contextual/aggregable/mongo.rb
+++ b/lib/mongoid/contextual/aggregable/mongo.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module Mongo
         #   If no documents are found, then returned Hash will have
         #   count, sum of 0 and max, min, avg of nil.
         def aggregates(field)
-          result = collection.aggregate(pipeline(field), session: _session).to_a
+          result = collection.aggregate(pipeline(field), session: _session, hint: options[:hint]).to_a
           if result.empty?
             Aggregable::EMPTY_RESULT.dup
           else