fond hope
Example Sentences
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“How many weary days and weeks had I passed, upheld only by the fond hope of bringing home many new and beautiful forms from those wild regions.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2017
In the early years of the project, examining the children's genotypes was just a fond hope.
From Nature • Apr. 11, 2012
This fond hope gradually disintegrates in this highly amusing and sharply written comedy of contemporary manners as battle lines are drawn not only between the two couples but also between the partners in both marriages.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2011
But that is a fond hope, at present.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2010
Yet within himself he cherished a fond hope that some day he might come to mean more to this sweet, unselfish girl than a mere comrade.
From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine
