She held out a desperate hope for the last man on the list.

Bran looked up in desperate hope, and there he was.

He knew 'that they placed in him their desperate last hope of preventing this thing.

Those were the very words I'd said to myself in desperate hope.

Still, he went on in the increasingly desperate hope it would start to come right.

And coming up inside me is the desperate hope that maybe she's dead.

A desperate hope which was like a strained echo of sound.

Printing money to give to the banks in the desperate hope it will work?

As I said, you are our last hope, and it is a desperate hope indeed.

What desperate hope had convinced him he might be able to hide his true nature from her?