21.   Some human rights advocates say that relying on the countries involved to mete out punishment may be a vain hope.

22.   The Likud and its allies voted against the Bibi bill, in the vain hope that this would force Shas to vote for the dissolution bill.

23.   There is no telling how many men and women, especially women, have fallen in love with him, and even harbored vain hopes of matrimony.

24.   They are said to exploit the gullibility of electors, demonstrating the triumph of vain hope over bitter experience.

25.   This comes from the vain hope that maybe, just maybe, a live person is lurking somewhere close by.

26.   Those are vain hopes, in my estimation.

27.   Beam Mon, her husband, Sa Sarin, and their children came to Phnom Penh from the countryside in August in the vain hope of finding work.

28.   He went to the airport early Thursday in the vain hope the ban would be lifted.

29.   However that might be a vain hope.

30.   Journalists meanwhile searched polling stations in the vain hope of catching sight of Karadzic.