For weeks I have been living with the vain hope that the trial would never take place.

Farrell knew that was a vain hope if ever there'd been one.

Well, it looked as if that was a vain hope.

But it was a vain hope, because another song came on.

Give up that vain hope and stay here with me.

I have a vain hope that that's not too much perspective.

Unfortunately, you are perhaps right and it has been a vain hope.

However, so that all of this does not simply remain a vain hope, decisions must be taken, I believe, in three areas.

Quietly, she closed the library door in the probably vain hope it would keep the man out.

It took only a moment to find what a vain hope that was.