"Is this the Heaven the seriously religious hope to go to when they die?"

My false hope was not going to help the boys.

With it went all hopes of getting his sixteen dollars.

Yet even with hope gone, she went on risking her life for others, perhaps because there was nothing else.

That was all the higher your hopes ever went in a place like this.

It seemed to him that his last hope had gone.

How many of them will stick with it, when the hope goes?

"I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason," she says.

She would not let all hope of love and joy go without fighting back.

The hope of doing so has not quite gone, but it is faint.