So sadly often, that hope has ended in disillusion and misery.
Any hope of those discussions moving forward ended with Mason's death in October 1954.
Denver's last hope of getting into the playoffs ended with a 44-24 home loss to Kansas City.
This hope ended when the Spanish burned him at the stake.
That does not mean that her hopes for more drastic measures have ended.
But that hope ended when they found the bodies of six men and the toothless woman with their throats cut.
They signified their hope for a peaceful, perhaps mediated, end to the dispute.
England women's hopes of reaching their first European final in 20 years ends with 2-0 defeat.
That hope ended with his first session in pads.
But his final hope ended when he bogeyed No. 18.