I board the train, trying to think hopeful thoughts.

We clung to our more hopeful thoughts, although we were haunted by one last fear: what would happen on the trip across?

Then, puzzling the matter over, he gained a more hopeful thought.

There were moments, though, when he had hopeful thoughts.

No younger and more hopeful thoughts were offered than his.

A third, more hopeful thought follows from the speed at which this flock of species evolved.

It was simultaneously a hopeful and yet frustrating thought, given how the seconds seemed to be stretching into decades from where he sat.

She decided that bed would be more comfortable and was tucking herself into it when a hopeful thought struck her.

It is supported by two wings, depicting the hopeful thought that, if things get too tough, you can always go fly.

It was a hopeful thought, but not one I placed much credence in.