1.   Any hope for reality vanished.

2.   But the nadir came the next season, when postseason hopes vanished with a loss to Pepperdine, then a collapse at Stanford.

3.   But those hopes have all but vanished.

4.   In general, they commit suicide when hopes of recovering their health, their comfort or their independence vanish.

5.   In the end, hope vanished once again.

6.   Those hopes vanished after her daughter was born.

7.   Those hopes vanished last Tuesday.

8.   When our playoff hopes vanished, we said we would get Steve some action.

9.   But Ecevit said if hopes for peace vanish in the Middle East, that could put Turkish-Israeli relations into difficulty.

10.   By May, those hopes had all but vanished as Islamic guerrillas seized strategic mountain peaks in Kashmir.