The phrase "actually long for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a deep desire or yearning for something that may not be currently present or attainable.
Example: "After years of living in the city, I actually long for the peace and quiet of the countryside."
Alternatives: "truly yearn for" or "genuinely desire".
How many Americans, experiencing economic disaster and two seemingly endless wars, would, far from fearing it, actually long for the curtailed respite of a "Twilight Zone" scenario?
The sexual electricity between him and Hamilton's Rosalind is so great that you actually long for them to fall upon and ravish each other to relieve the tension.
I did resent what seemed like overly extensive contact at the time, but now, four years later, as a college freshman about a thousand miles from home, I actually long for the days when my parents could easily contact me!
Citi analyst Jason B. Bazinet notes Ergen may actually long for TiVo's digital video recording technology and could be waging his battle to determine whether the patent is real and defensible in order to decide if TiVo's equity is worth a takeover.
This encounter makes you question everything and actually long for that ex, even though you broke up for a reason.
The truth is, at that point in the proceedings, I actually longed for the relief a fatal accident might bring.
You thought it, actually; for long years, you thought he was very clever, but he is not.
Singles often work their way up and down the dance charts faster than on the Hot 100, so five weeks is actually a long time for any track to run the show.
It has been exploring an area where rocks have been found containing water-deposited sediments to learn if the life-friendly environments actually existed long enough for life to evolve.
Covenants have rarely been the actual instruments by which societies actually functioned for long, but they are extremely frequent as ideological foundations for sociopolitical legitimacy.
Though there are a couple of nondance moments when she is in danger of giving a mistaken "acting" emphasis (as in the "late entrance" and when she regards the men who will bear her aloft at the end), and though her loosened fair hair is actually too long and intrusive for the final Elegy, her sheer freshness and destiny-driven urgency are more than welcome.
