So she told Drede the truth, and now he has a fragile hope.

Did he have to squash my last fragile hope?

Now she was the one upon whom their fragile hopes for survival depended.

Then, early in the third week of December, any fragile hope of good times abruptly came to an end.

Such a perfect moment, the one she had held as a brilliant and fragile hope in her heart.

In that direction lay a hope too fragile to be exposed - even to herself.

It had been a fragile hope at best, but the morrow remained.

Then, six weeks ago, that fragile hope was shattered when the baby arrived.

He and this unsparing report leave the fragile hope that Kevin will not follow.

Let us seize upon this fragile hope and pursue four points of action.