But it's a dim hope because Elliott's contract situation involves what other players' demands.

At a certain point, everything that can be said has been said, and all that's left is hope, however dim.

They no longer have even a dim hope of victory on this western front.

The chances for decent change rest on two dim hopes.

A dim hope tried to light within her, but she was no fool as to fan that flame.

She waited for a moment in the dim hope that the person would walk past her to receive communion himself.

That ended his one dim hope concerning the fate of the Earthpower.

Stern meditated an instant on Peter's dim hopes for him.

Gathered together and finally free, with a dim hope of promised lands, they were as if drunk.

I had only the dimmest hopes that those words would be palliative.