Anyway, in these vague expectations I was mistaken.

Generally, such wines do not improve in the bottle, so delayed gratification based on vague, distant ceremonial expectations is often wasteful.

I gazed anxiously at him, with a vague expectation that some terrible fate would dart at him from the curtain of green behind him.

Just because you had a vague expectation that authorization might be granted doesn't alter them.

I did not anticipate danger for them, but a vague expectation of evil shook me to agony, and I could scarcely bring myself to let them go.

A more vague expectation that something like a contribution might influence a public official has been deemed insufficient.

They had all joined the Legion with some notion that they might eventually be fired upon, but having that vague expectation become reality was a shock.

Despite that, she has this vague societally based expectation that she should do most of the chores; all in her head, not to do with anything in real life.

That the company is not required to compensate you for your hopes for some vague expectation of a future that might never occur.

It begins as a nightmare and ends with a vague expectation of the break of day.