1.   There were realistic hopes for Surrey as Mark Butcher and Stewart appeared to be building a stand in their own time.

2.   As a result, Republicans had little realistic hope of doing anything about their frustration.

3.   As for USC, the Las Vegas Bowl and Independence Bowl are the only two realistic hopes the Trojans have of playing in the postseason.

4.   Before the Kosovo crisis there were realistic hopes that the budgetary argument might sway enough votes to overcome nationalist and Communist opposition.

5.   But a new summit meeting only makes sense if there is a realistic hope of breaking the impasse over Jerusalem that halted the Camp David talks.

6.   But reality and history says that you have to take a few turns around Augusta National before you can have any realistic hope of winning here.

7.   But there is little realistic hope of reform policies emerging from an LDP system designed to keep things as they are.

8.   But the lost seasons dashed any realistic hope of a scholarship.

9.   Education and internal policing among the hundreds of clubs out on the trails is the only realistic hope.

10.   Feingold said that more Democrats could fall away, now that the campaign reform measure appears to have its first realistic hope of passage.