Second, they all cherish a naive hope of starting over, tabula rasa.

You just don't make unilateral cuts in the naive hope that the Soviets are going to behave themselves.

So is any naive hope that the Olympic flame could spur more than a flicker of sustained interest in a troubled sport.

From someone as young as Mori, that question might have been filled with naive hope at finding an ally.

The longer he stayed here, the more naive and forlorn that hope looked.

We boarded with the naive hope of making it to our hotel in a few minutes and going to sleep.

His only naive hope is that he will win the national lottery.

Trying to control other people is a vain naive hope, from the point of view of reality therapy.

Hopefulness, of course; a naive hope that he would be unlike other men.

Other Middle East experts say that is a naive hope.