faint hope

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

A faint hope was better than no response at all.

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

There was one faint hope for the man in black.

I had a faint hope about what it might be.

He had discovered something that gave him a faint hope.

Without knowing why, he began to feel a 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.

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