She had had those vague wishes, those inchoate fantasies . . . Barin's hands would not be like those other hands.

The only thing on his mind was the book that he'd just started, and a vague wish that he'd brought it with him to read if there was going to be a queue.

How often is their only guidance a vague wish to "find out" about something, be it dinosaurs, railways or whatever?

Why she had taken Denver and Beloved with her didn't puzzle her now--at the time it seemed impulse, with a vague wish for protection.

Except that he had no prayers to recite, only the vague wish that what he had to do would be done quickly and without accident or surprise.

What I actually felt was a vague wish that she would somehow turn into Holly.

Is there, perhaps, a vague wish that there was more excitement than there is?

I have only a vague wish for peace and the time to ponder imponderable matters.

He denounced the use of law as an instrument of political communication, expressing vague wishes instead for effective legislation.

In return, they offered vague wishes for her well-being, suggesting that they supported her claim to the Lion Throne wholeheartedly without actually saying any such thing.