Second language students sometimes have unrealistic expectations about how much they will learn in a 3-month course.

"I certainly think the community, all of us, should not have unrealistic expectations."

The problem lay in our unrealistic expectations of one another.

Most of the concerns had to do with unrealistic expectations for their children.

It was his unrealistic expectations that had let him down.

"I think the people that are left in the market have unrealistic expectations," he said.

At the same time, she said, the American public - and perhaps its leaders - might have had unrealistic expectations.

"I just don't want her to have unrealistic expectations," a senior official in the Bush campaign said.

Sorry but that is just an unrealistic expectation to have.