A bit more cynically, you might mention that these same editors and writers hoped the scoop would bring them attention.

But for the less fortunate, she said, "this exam embodied the very bias the writers of the article hoped to eliminate."

Any writer hopes to involve readers as viscerally as that.

They were the kind of stories that writers hope for, dream about, but rarely acquire direct from the scoundrel's mouth.

A writer could never hope for a more generous publisher.

Without question, the magazine represented a heaven to which many writers hoped to ascend.

In it, the writer hopes to reverse the negative connotations behind female pejoratives.

No writer could hope to surpass either as romantic histories of their particular subject.

He was a busier man than any writer can hope to cover, and even a condensed version fills these books to bursting point.

War becomes not less attractive, as the writers hoped, but darkly enticing.