Loewen argued that the post-Reconstruction period was actually one of widespread hope for racial equity, when idealistic Northerners championed civil rights.

There is widespread hope that the road will bring more people to the region and increase production forestry products, fish and minerals.

With Mrs. Chamorro's election and the peace accord that followed, there was widespread hope for tranquillity and national reconciliation.

If such social tensions were not on people's minds while Israel was fighting to survive, one widespread hope was that warfare would end soon.

The widespread hope in Katmandu that the army would quickly crush the rebellion has proved empty.

The surprising findings from the earlier studies contributed to a widespread hope that antibiotics would be an effective therapy for coronary artery disease.

"There's a widespread hope that sunlight, in the future, will prove an effective disinfectant," he writes.

The Enlightenment was accompanied by a widespread hope for a regenerating elite that would help usher in a new, more just social order.

There are widespread hopes that people at many levels, from high school classrooms to blue-ribbon groups of intellectuals and politicians, will take part.

A widespread hope is that a compromise can be reached under which good literature will be published, creativity thrive and publishing houses become more profitable.