Should women abandon hope, since it looks as if nothing works?

To know the future is to be forced to abandon hope.

Are we to abandon hope for these millions of people?

After a further week even William almost abandoned hope of his father's survival.

No matter how bleak our situation seems, we must never abandon hope.

We were forced to feel a need to abandon ideology and hope.

Rescue workers said they had abandoned hope for those still trapped.

The youth had abandoned hope, knew he was going to die, that pleading would not help him.

But, he said, he has not abandoned hope for the city.

He pointed in the direction from which I had just come after abandoning hope of finding a village there.