I hope that I am wrong and you are right, but the worst thing is to let illusory hopes overtake us.

Rather than inveigh against nature for his agonies, the wanderer bemoans any brightening of the atmosphere for the illusory hopes it engenders.

They could be read as the momentary, illusory hope that culminates in the release of the aristocratic prisoner - and the release, also, of the eagle.

Disappointments will follow illusory hopes and fleeting pleasures.

The result is a relationship fueled by the seductive complicity of love and pity, by Laura's bittersweet guilt over betraying her comfortable marriage and holding out illusory hope for a dying man.

He clung to no illusory hopes of escape or of overcoming his enemies' superior numbers.

The illusory hope of compromise was shattered.

This continued ambiguity gives rise to illusory hopes and, for Turkey in particular, the hope of achieving a status to which it cannot lay claim.

Poverty and unemployment are the reasons for the growth in this trafficking, which holds out to the women who are victimised by it the illusory hope of a better future.

For Wagner, Paris was the city of illusory hopes.