entertain a hope

Which means they must still be entertaining a hope of victory.

Could it be that his young friend entertained a hope in that direction?

They seemed to have entertained a hope they might do better than this."

"I always entertained a hope that some day the Revolutionary Government would call again on my services.

On the one hand, the Chinese leaders continued to entertain a hope, although a shrinking one, that some opening for talks.

Draper entertained a hope that he might be appointed as a Royal Governor, but this came to nothing.

By now, he might be entertaining a hope of escape, though the direction of his flight across the ocean of dunes would take him nowhere.

Never, since reading Jane's second letter, had she entertained a hope of Wickham's meaning to marry her.

The card-table was then placed, and Elinor began to wonder at herself for having ever entertained a hope of finding time for conversation at the park.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

From these circumstances Captain Cook entertained a hope, that in a course of years, they would multiply so much as to be extended over all the isles of the Southern Ocean.

Also, in the wake of B'Elanna, he'd entertained a hope that he might be able to build a relationship with Lyndsay Ballard, whom he'd had a crush on since the Academy.

She would have enjoyed meeting Annette Dinsmore again, and especially Bob Smithdas, a pen pal; she might have entertained a hope of changing their pen-pal relationship into something more.

Had it been New Israel/Aleph, they might have entertained a hope that some Earth-based drug baron was taking it easy in the low-gravity spa on that carefully groomed tourist haven.

They do not hint, as does the half-protest candidate Perot, that they entertain a hope of some miraculous victory, or of throwing the election into the House, or of getting a job with the winner.

It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn a hundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

He laughed again, although this time with less humor; he realized that he had been entertaining a hope that he would not find Vaughn, and that he would not have to tell his old friend what he had done.

The natural love of life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I was ready to entertain a hope that this adventure might, some way or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition I was in.

Pedro Fages watched her enter, as splendid and smiling as on her best days, and he entertained a hope for a steamy reconciliation, even though he was not ready to forgive her too quickly; the woman deserved some punishment.

The work also entertains a hope that ferryboats may once again prove to be a "reasonably low-cost method of moving the masses across the mighty Hudson . . . but not for a $10 fare on a hi-tech express," as is now the case.