faint hope
slender hope

I had a faint hope about what it might be.

A faint hope was better than no response at all.

But it would leave some faint hope for the others, perhaps.

There was one faint hope for the man in black.

It was a faint hope at the moment, but he had no more.

Without knowing why, he began to feel a faint hope.

Well, it had been a faint hope anyway, he told himself.

He had discovered something that gave him a faint hope.

There was no sign of his friend, and he allowed himself the first faint hope.

Her last faint hope of ever seeing Frank again was now at an end.

South led the heart jack, in the faint hope that West held the king and would cover.

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

Ruth's faint hope that he would not remember her died.

He had faint hopes of finding someone who would help free them.

Even the faintest hope is better than none at all.

He had no faintest hope that she could still be living.

A faint hope had sprung up in the back of her mind.

But always, there had been at least a faint hope of survival.

At the time, there was some faint hope that the franchise may start up again in 1998-99.

Ah well, it had been a faint hope, after all.

Was there even the faintest hope he could find the kid?

There is a faint hope that it will somehow have written itself in the morning.

We had tried the night before with faint hope, quickly extinguished.

I write it with that expectation, and only a faint hope.

There was a faint hope, however, and to that she would cling.