It's very early days, but there's at least an air of hopeful expectation in Burma.

His name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation.

Unlike women whose fathers were absent, remote or abusive, these women tend to view men with realistic yet hopeful expectations, experts say.

If in that area you are attacked in spite of our hopeful expectations, pull back at once.

Donna retreated from the steps, a look of hopeful expectation on her face.

The living waited in hopeful expectation, longing to leave.

The high idealism of the war years still reigned, and mission work seemed to fit clearly with hopeful expectations for international democracy.

The general tone of the office is one of penitence, tempered by an attitude of hopeful expectation.

Her husband sat beside the bed, unfolding his handkerchief in hopeful expectation of a tear, and craving damnably for a smoke.

A bowl of New England clam chowder bore out our hopeful expectations.