The loudness you adopt in response to a bad cellphone connection, in the misguided hope that talking louder will improve the connection.

I have a day job, and I don't look back on my misguided hope of becoming an art star.

Hopes Gone Wrong There is a long tradition of misguided hopes.

Not only that, he felt he had a reason for hope; Riker could only hope that it wasn't a sadly misguided hope.

Furthermore, Noji spends his remaining days chirping about how his dad will show up soon, paralleling Ibirii's misguided hopes about his family.

Out of work and strapped for money, the lives of these individuals revolve around a local bar and their misguided hopes and dreams.

Perhaps he had simply blocked it away when he had agreed to bring her on this journey in the misguided hope that it wouldn't prove to be a problem.

The misguided hope that we will be born again as 'bionic angels,' to quote Mondo 2000, is a deadly misreading of the myth of Icarus.

It is a misguided hope.

Plenty of psychics have called, some looking for self-promotion, some apparently driven by a misguided hope to help bring an end to their doubts.