1.   On that fond hope, she is likely to be disappointed.

2.   That overcautious disposition was noticed long ago, but there was a fond hope that experience would cure it.

3.   They sent him to another school in the fond hope that his behaviour would improve.

4.   My fond hope is that we will be ready by Christmastime.

5.   And yet, because the Senate has not convened, the spirit of cooperation is still more a blueprint or fond hope than a fact.

6.   Children snuggle fitfully in their bed with fond hopes that Ninja and Nintendo will not-so-magically appear in their stockings come morning.

7.   Despite the fond hopes of parents, however, the new findings do not indicate that every baby carries the seeds of a Mozart inside, waiting to sprout.

8.   I have fond hopes that I can finish in a year and a half or two, which probably means three or four.

9.   The fond hope is that the grass-roots recruits will already be engaged in civic life.