Decker wasn't sure whether it was a hopeless cause or not.

Everyone is fighting, but it seems like a hopeless cause.

And I thought it was recognition of a hopeless cause.

"I don't believe this is a hopeless cause," he said.

They are not a hopeless cause, and it's worth trying harder to save them.

Why had they in fact given more of themselves in a hopeless cause?

I'm getting the idea that you are a hopeless cause.

But they now regard getting Congress to throw its own members out of work as a hopeless cause.

By the middle of the second half, he and his countrymen knew this was a hopeless cause.

They can make weak candidates strong and put hope into hopeless causes.