"elusive dream" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to evoke a sense of something that is hard to attain or nearly impossible to capture or realize. For example, "He had chased his elusive dream for years, but it still managed to elude him."
PERSONALISED medicine has proved an elusive dream.
Later he holds her, seated, high above his head, but at no point is she more than an elusive dream.
For dramatists, getting "Gatsby" whole, in all its glory, may be the most elusive dream of all.
No more – and no less – artificial than any of its touristic predecessors, Castelfalfi is merely the latest attempt to replicate that elusive dream.
The film, like the novel, is a sustained meditation on connection, human possibility, the elusive dream of happiness and the sometimes seductive call of death.
Away from the images, away from that space, thinking about her work is akin to recalling a brief, delicious, ultimately elusive dream.
But the impression here is less of people running after elusive dreams than of actors running after elusive roles.
He had minor hits with "My Elusive Dreams," "California Sunshine" and "Buffalo Nickel," in the late 1960's and "Two Little Boys" in 1970.
A staff writer for The Washington Post and the daughter of Indian immigrants, Kalita profiles three Indian-American families pursuing their sometimes elusive dreams in the New World.
The actors playing Chekhov's characters are always pacing or running or jumping, and the impression "is less of people running after elusive dreams than of actors running after elusive roles," Ben Brantley writes.
All of these characters pursue elusive dreams of success and love; all of them become hooked on various substances -- the young people on heroin, Sara on a mixture of television and diet pills.
