11.   He would take the measurements and send them to a shop back East and hope for the best.

12.   Hopes for a soft landing have faded.

13.   Hopes for a successful outcome to the war were fading.

14.   I have high hopes for you.

15.   I was brimming with hopes for obtaining a good liberal arts education, then training in journalism.

16.   If the lightning had struck me like it had Ben, it would have meant no hope for me.

17.   In such situations, hopes for a less active, more cautious and realistic, less expansive foreign policy were slim.

18.   In the long run the centralist traditions were to win the race against all hopes for some measure of local autonomy.