However they both keep trying, either out of optimistic hope or blindness.

His own most optimistic hope was to finish his final Tour in the top 20.

The commissioner's most optimistic hopes were flashing across the screen.

We all had optimistic hopes after they came down here, but to call the playground and the new streetlights significant would be degrading to us.

So much for his optimistic hope of exiting without leaving a trace.

The optimistic hope is that Homestake's virtues would eventually draw the scientists back.

In 2008 optimistic hopes were that this rocket,.

My deepest, most optimistic hope is that we are finally at a place where this recognition can happen.

The classes were succeeding far beyond my most optimistic hopes.

As events turned out, our most optimistic hopes were justified.