Then a new but terribly familiar voice turned even that small hope to ashes.

Oh well, I never really held out that much hope for the British public anyway.

Not alive; I have long since abandoned that faint hope.

But I did not hold out that much hope.

He kept that constant hope foremost in his mind.

His conscience reproached him as he held out that false hope.

But Ukraine's overwhelming vote for independence last week dashed that fading hope.

Not very strong, that hope, if you went soldiering!

"Dai, you can leave me out of the 'we' regarding that particular hope," the President said.

So what matters is what I can do to show that hope and confidence today.