Their futures had always been different, just as their childish hopes were, but they knew each other as well as brothers did, and liked each other very much more than brothers usually did.

I just must have some kind of childish hope in me.

It was time for her to put aside all childish hopes and ambitions and resign herself to a life of servitude and boredom with Alfred and Charlotte.

You had a strong, emotional attachment to this entity, so much so that you took it to bed with you in the childish hope of nursing it back to health.

Yet, an insane and childish hope alighted in her heart, despite her best efforts to squelch it.

It was a childish hope, very regressive, not grown-up, masculine.

Shann grinned wryly now at the short period of childish hope and half-confidence that he could do big things.

He held out a childish hope that it might strike someone on the head.

Speaking to his college friend Rodrigo, he recalls a time when they dreamed of political freedom: "We'd talk of bringing in a golden age - awakening a world of childish hopes!"

The heartfelt bustle of that hour is hardly credible; the thrill of the great shower of letters from the post-bag, the childish hope and interest with which one gazed in all these strangers' eyes.