1.   After so long without any word from David, Margaret was starting to lose hope.

2.   But then generals have not lost hope altogether of clinging on to power.

3.   If we had lost hope, the desert dawn would restore our faith.

4.   The therapist should be alert to the possibilities of a patient losing all hope.

5.   We never lost hope that our son would return one day.

6.   She has also lost all hope of repair, she does not believe that her lover will return.

7.   But many teenagers lose all hope.

8.   I have also lost hope that the Labour and Liberal parties will ever be anything but a weak and ineffective opposition to the Tory principles.

9.   And an hour before the deadline, Hunsicker says he had lost hope of acquiring the overpowering pitcher.

10.   And Josie Lewis of Houston describes how she refused to lose hope for her conjoined twins, who shared an abnormal heart structure.