Funny, how hope raises its lovely head when least expected, a flower in a wasteland.

The pattern is established early: Dinah's hopes raised, hopes dashed, song.

Ms. Campbell said the men were relaxed and smiling, but were worried about having their hopes for release raised.

But higher hopes have also raised passions.

The hope the old man had raised washed away, leaving bitterness.

The hopes raised for blacks when Mr. Mandela was released in 1990 have turned to frustration.

'Always having her hopes raised and then it comes to nothing,' she went on just as if the scream had never happened.

In the process, patients with neurodegenerative diseases have not only had their hopes raised prematurely, some have actually been harmed.

For false hopes raised in my mind.

The religious right's hope for taming that culture is also doomed, however much Congress ceremoniously raises indecency fines in an election year.