false hope

Example Sentences

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“I would be hopeful that we won’t get to those metrics yet, but I’ve also had a bit of a false hope that oil wouldn’t hit $100 a barrel this quickly as well.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

“We learned the hard way to be careful, there’s been a lot of false hope in the past,” said Rotem Cooper, whose parents were both kidnapped by Hamas from their kibbutz of Nir Oz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Medbed theories, at their core, are deeply depressing, because they offer false hope to people with pretty desperate situations.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025

"In the first leg PSG were hoping to draw them out of defence and almost give them false hope by leaving spaces for them to attack into," Warnock told BBC Sport.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025

That night, when I went to bed, I was no longer worried about eighth-grade love triangles or whether it was possible that Clearasil was just an elaborate scam that gave insecure teens false hope.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi