She entertained a fleeting hope the intruder might be an animal.

The road trip could wipe away any fleeting hope of contending.

It was a fleeting hope and, like all hopes, daily crushed under the weight of the waking world.

It is just one long record of fleeting hope, futile effort, and humiliation.

Some Whitman supporters even hold out the fleeting hope that she could still be his running mate.

Sergetov had held the fleeting hope that the Politburo might be brought to its senses.

The colonel took it and examined it with some fleeting hope.

It had been a fleeting hope, a half-formed plan, made before he gave in to exhaustion.

His last fleeting hope lay in salvaging the pieces.

She began to unzip her skirt and then paused in the act, giving me another moment of fleeting hope.