The tantalizing hope that the Jets could salvage their season all but disappeared today.

But that hope disappeared when the study team assignments came out.

And when the hope disappears, then maybe war really is the only solution.

Those hopes have all but disappeared now, analysts said.

The hopes for Mexico's getting an investment-grade rating any time soon have all but disappeared.

Now the hope of a substantial recovery in the second half of this year is disappearing, too.

When Hanoi's army took over the South in 1975, that hope disappeared.

As the club finished fifth, seventh and then 17th, hopes of quick promotion disappeared.

The thin hopes for peace that seemed real only this summer have disappeared into the mountain air.

Susannah felt her heart sink as any hopes they might find a quick and easy way out of this disappeared.