I gave the woman at the desk a hopeful smile.

But then his thin lips curved slowly into a hopeful smile.

She offered them a hopeful smile, but few of the boys seemed to care what their new slave master's purposes might be.

"Get them in here," he told Freeman with a broad, hopeful smile on his face.

A hopeful smile crept onto her face as she scanned the words.

She turned at the sound and sent a hopeful smile his way.

My wife was sitting up in bed, a hopeful smile on her face.

Her face lit up with the hopeful smile of a besotted woman.

We saw the hopeful smiles on the faces of the Palestinian representatives.

She took a resigned breath and gave him a hopeful smile.