If there had been work for him in Nashville of a sort that he could settle down to, both these vague ambitions might have faded.

She is the grounded center of the book and contrasts nicely with Reilly's vague ambitions.

Driven by powerful but vague ambition in those years, I had intended the doghouse to be a replica of a medieval castle, complete with towers and battlements.

Then, as always, he had a variety of vague ambitions.

Lots of rappers emerge with vague (but not weak) ambitions: to be successful, to be loved, to be a star.

Addams, still filled with vague ambition, sank into depression, unsure of her future and feeling useless leading the conventional life expected of a well-to-do young woman.

Though I did have a vague ambition to be a writer (having won a junior high school poetry contest), Faulkner's course was for promising upperclassmen, not struggling sophomores.

The vague ambitions he'd had before seemed unrealistic now.

Mr. Powell entered Williams with vague ambitions to become a doctor.

And I an average man--or perhaps hardly that--with little to boast of in the past, and vague ambitions for the future.