1.   His heart sank, his faint hope of creating an opportunity to escape crushed.

2.   I thought about letting it ring, but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally.

3.   The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames.

4.   The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died.

5.   The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season.

6.   There was still the faint hope deep within him that she might never need to know.

7.   That uncertainty urges us to look beyond the present, with a faint hope to control our future.

8.   There was still a faint hope that the ILP would accept organizational unity, and become submerged in the more unified and efficient Communist Party.