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vague hope

collocation in English

meanings of vagueand hope


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vague
adjective
uk /veɪɡ/ us /veɪɡ/
not clearly expressed, known, described, ...
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hope
noun[C or U]
uk /həʊp/ us /hoʊp/
something good that you want to happen in the future, or a confident feeling about what will happen in ...
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Examples of vague hope


These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Equally, in the field of medicine all research is undertaken with at least a vaguehope that it will one day be used to improve treatment.
No business could afford to invest in research based on a vaguehope.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He expresses the vaguehope that then there may be some repayment.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
There is a vaguehope, certainly, of a policy of encirclement.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They are simply deferring it in the vaguehope that some better circumstances will come along.
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Hansard archive

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It is thanks to such humanitarian help that we can retain a vaguehope in a better future.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Nor can we leave it to some vaguehope that they will keep us in touch in some undefined way.
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Hansard archive

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People started up small businesses in the vaguehope that the houses in which they lived would provide future capital.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The tea carton symbolizes vaguehope that has no direction.
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Wikipedia

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We cannot disinterest ourselves from this or that part of the world in a vaguehope that happenings in that area will not affect us.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I still cherish a rather vaguehope that from time to time government may listen and even react to what is said from behind them.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This must not merely be attached to the aid in the form of a vaguehope: it must be a condition of that aid.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I merely say that there is a certain amount of pie in the sky in it, and vaguehope, but the objective, at any rate, is right.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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