crumb of hope

He had tossed the incident out as a crumb of hope, not because he felt it meant anything.

He allowed himself a momentary crumb of hope.

He would have given a lot just for one crumb, one small crumb of hope.

Another found a crumb of hope.

Bravely Podvex tried to salvage some crumb of hope from the ashes.

Mr. Korotich is a man who seizes every crumb of hope where he can find it.

Before talks that began today, Mr. Butler acknowledged that relations with Saddam Hussein were again at a crisis point but offered Iraq a few crumbs of hope for quicker action toward lifting sanctions.