He'd always secretly wanted a daughter; he suspected most men did, whatever they might tell the rest of the world.

He secretly wants to be human, feeling life is limited as a cat.

It was also believed that many politicians secretly wanted peace.

Maybe it's true what they say: people having affairs secretly want to get caught.

And anyway, didn't he secretly want her to read his journal?

It's funny, it really is; but you know what I've always secretly wanted to be?

He'd never called her gramma before, though she secretly always wanted him to.

And aren't those exactly the words everyone secretly wants to hear?

I secretly wanted to go along with them, but they didn't ask me, and I've always felt strange inviting myself to things.

The criminal secretly wants to get caught, so ran the popular wisdom.