Several parents said they had visited the farm over the past two years, hoping to persuade their sons to leave, without success.

Kirk didn't want to hope without any reason.

He hoped, without much optimism, that it would relieve the pain in her head.

If a consensus can be reached, that could lead, they hope, to a restructuring of the company's debts without a trip to bankruptcy court.

I hope a new world results without the enslavement of international financial speculation.

The difference is, I suspect, that many of us now hope without much in the way of expectation.

She hoped without much optimism that her sudden surge of anxiety didn't show.

I hoped, without real belief, that the boy's return would be enough to mend the family.

I kept hoping for the best for Yataro with or without a father.

You were hoping I'd get by, working those old claims, without the big interests learning of it.