'fond hope' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
Example sentence: Despite their tough situation, they still held a fond hope of finding a way out.
That, in any event, is today's fond hope.
Goldwater embraced "extremism" in the fond hope that its time, if not his time, would come.
Jeff Chase, Durham, N.C.: I share your fond hope for a bipartisan compromise to update the congressional oversight of intelligence.
With the battle lines drawn, he expresses the fond hope that reason and moderation will prevail on both sides.
Even in 1787, the phrase "We the people of the United States" was a fond hope rather than a political or social reality.
The fond hope that companies can "do well by doing good" sometimes extends to the assertion that they can even increase profitability.
The book still makes the outdated, sloppy suggestion that having a teenage gay son "demolishes" parents' "fond hopes" of a "rewarding career, marriage and grandchildren".
Valentine's Day was to the junior set of East Cleveland, Ohio, what the Tuesday after the first Monday in November has been, of late, to the Republicans--a time of trial and testing, an ordeal by majority vote, an implacable measuring of proud boasts and fond hopes..
Instead of talking about our faiths, let's exercise them in common action, talking as we go about our families, commitments, frustrations, and fond hopes.
Two of Mr. Gore's closest Washington friends recall that while Al Gore was the focus of his parents' fondest hopes, it was his free-spirited, rebellious sister, Nancy, who took more of their energy.
There had been fond hopes of securing 80 seats and holding the balance of power.
