fondly imagine

First class is not, as I had fondly imagined, the best seat in the house.

"We fondly imagined this would be a low demand time."

So now we fondly imagine that the crazy aspects of the project will be abandoned.

I had fondly imagined, that, in this respect, they were surpassed by none.

Or (pitiful parenthesis) as you fondly imagined one to be.

Are you the Creator or just yourself, as you fondly imagine your contents?

Most conspiracies fondly imagine everything will solve itself once the tyrant's dead."

He wanted it protected, and he fondly imagined you could do it.

Experts who see you for the age you are, not the 10 to 15 years younger you fondly imagine?

You upset people, fondly imagining you are provoking reactions in the process.

Besides, Kirk was fond of her, though he fondly imagined that to be a secret even from her.

It makes her eager to leave for France, a country that stands for everything desirable - or so she fondly imagines.

We fondly imagined that this suckering giant with the serrated white leaves had ancient origins.

Rendering them unassailable (or so they fondly imagined) was the fact that the monarchs of Europe were all closely related.

So, given everything we know now, you still fondly imagine that the invasion of Iraq was about 'weapons of mass destruction'?

The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine.

For some years the Reverend had desired to return to England unencumbered by his family, and fondly imagined them unaware of this.

Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.

Worse, he had a passion (carefully hidden, he fondly imagined) for dragon-slaying, which only reinforced her decision not to tell him everything.

Never again, as I once fondly imagined, will I consider that Siddhartha is clever.

Under the spell of legend, many aspiring souls pretended to speak French in Saigon and fondly imagined themselves doing so.

Peter fondly imagined that the swipe machine was 'on line' to his bank, constantly updated on the state of his account.

Of course, he is not a second Nostromo, as he fondly imagined he would be; but still, the position was brilliant enough.

Therefore interest rates would not have "risen dramatically" if RPI was the measure as you are fondly imagining.

Unless you are fondly imagining that people like Mervyn King actually run the Treasury?