21.   Currently, the only real hope for people with this ultimately fatal disease is a new heart.

22.   Despite their disagreements, many Republicans and Democrats have expressed real hope for legislation this year, tracing their optimism to the early beginning of the debate.

23.   Early detection is the only real hope of surviving lung cancer for long.

24.   Even so, a majority of southern Irish believe the Good Friday agreement, for all its flaws, is the only real hope for peace.

25.   Faced with this deadline, Whitman and Gov. George Pataki of New York have now come forward with a plan that offers real hope.

26.   For now, mechanical traps offer the only real hope of controlling the snails.

27.   For the most part, these hapless ones are still without jobs, without skills, without any real hope.

28.   For the first time in years, New York City can have real hope about its public-school system.

29.   Freeman was the only real hope for a gold medal.

30.   He held out the very real hope of recovery.