pious hope
pious wish

Of course he should but this is a pious hope.

From somebody else it would have sounded like a pious hope.

But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope.

Moving forward with a pious hope whether could we find a stronger shoulder among us.

I believe this is what is called a pious hope.

Under these conditions, talk about an employment strategy is nothing but pious hopes.

Does this document today not ultimately come down to words and pious hopes?

Her works are sincere, emanating an almost pious hope that people would again come together.

This will remain a pious hope until common asylum procedures are adopted.

Pious hope on the inside, deafening silence on the outside.

That is why we should like access to this programme for small organisations to become more than just a pious hope.

Too often in this report we content ourselves with lofty aims and pious hopes.

We may all join in that pious hope, but it is doubtful whether poetry can come of an incubator.

I sincerely hope, in conclusion, that social Europe cannot be satisfied with mere words and pious hopes.

However, as is usually the case with this type of resolution, I fear that we are still at the stage of pious hopes.

Travel memoirists often express the pious hope that people are the same everywhere.

Taking everything into consideration, however, we have to ensure that these voluntary agreements actually yield results and do not just remain a pious hope.

The matter was discussed. We are not in the business of pious hopes in this House.

In fact, it will take not only volition, fine words and pious hopes, but also genuine action which challenges our present lifestyle.

Carbon emissions will not be prevented by pious hopes and promises, unless they become part of the directive itself.

He scorns "the pious hope that science and religion are independent realms which can easily be separated."

Whether this is a pious hope or frankly based on self-interest, the fact remains that one can't serve two masters.

This may be a pious hope.

I liked the bit about grandchildren, a pious hope that the Shallot line did not end there and then!)

The 'Biodiversity' action plan is honourable, though it is nothing more than a pious hope.

As to whether the Council is yet prepared to take our opinion into account, that may be more of a pious wish than a hope.

This comprehensive report contains a number of ideas which should be more than pious wishes.

In my opinion, we must, finally, act decisively so that the fight against fraud does not just remain a pious wish.

Are they to remain merely a pious wish?

Perhaps in that instant of afterthought she wanted to take that pious wish back.

But no, we remain at a level of pious wishes, fine words and declarations with no follow-up.

Despite this pious wish, acrimonious faction fighting tore the county organization to pieces over the next several years.

Why, as General Morillon said, are there, however, only words and pious wishes?

The notion that 'truth will prevail' is merely a pious wish; history doesn't show it.

Not just as a pious wish, but with monitoring and convergence procedures that will stimulate the coordination of policies within a common framework.

To say here that the conflict that has been going on for decades will shortly bring 'positive results' is nothing more than a pious wish.

Generally this amounted to nothing ' or than a pious wish, except where the strength of the home p1 .

If anything, the symbolic stature of the office had grown now that its occupant really was "above politics"-once a pious wish, now fact.

"That is a pious wish," Mr. Rocourt said.

Soon as the evening hours decline Tranquilly he'll return to dine, And, breathing forth a pious wish, Will cram his belly full of fish.

The report by Philippe Herzog proposes some minor adjustments to the scoreboard for state aid and gives some pious wishes.

Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Commissioner, can we begin to hope that this will might finally manifest itself other than through pious wishes?

It is with this in mind that the joint motion for a resolution expresses not merely a pious wish, but an appeal to all the institutions of the European Union.

(The President interrupted the speaker) Our vote would therefore be no more than a pious wish which the Council of Europe would, of necessity, have to disregard.

We should not be creating pious wishes and dreaming, and should incorporate only feasible targets into the strategy; after all, we have known since 1830 that we need a supra-national policy.

More recently, the Administration has expressed a pious wish that the Kremlin seek more peaceful solutions; on Friday, a State Department spokesman criticized "the indiscriminate and excessive use of military force."

The American Ambassador to Poland, Daniel Fried, who was then on the National Security Council, said today that he remembered being asked to help "turn this pious wish into a policy."

The United States can and should take the lead in building an international consensus on the compensation issue and, working with allies in Europe and elsewhere, help raise money to ensure that it is more than a pious wish.

Klaus Hänsch asked the Council not to let its meetings degenerate into declaratory summits, but now, when I compare the statements with what is actually happening, Mr Hänsch's call remains a pious wish.

Your pious wish to pay King Edward's debts, Your lavish household curb'd, and the remission Of half that subsidy levied on the people, Make all tongues praise and all hearts beat for you.