The phrase "hopeful image" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing a scenario or event that has a positive outlook. For example, "The sunrise created a hopeful image of a new day."
One hopeful image in a season of pain.
The writer claims that the combination of cuteness and scariness occuring in this book and others reflects children's hopeful image of themselves.
Such a hopeful image in the wake of Varone's departure felt like the choreographer's gift to us, and an assurance that only part of him was saying goodbye.
Tragically, the truth of this president's policies regarding AIDS is the complete opposite of the hopeful image Mr. Brooks attempts to portray.
"I wanted to create a hopeful image, an image that wasn't sarcastic or even political but that reflects the private moment of voting.
That is a hopeful image and a lofty aim, but it cannot happen until the Department of Energy is freed from the nuclear weapons establishment.
We hope these powerful and hopeful images will generate discussion and awareness among youth and inspire them to get involved in making the goals a reality here in Ethiopia".
Pictures of the bunks show crayon etchings of houses and smiling faces, hopeful images that could have been drawn by children in schools anywhere in the country.
The work isn't uniformly grim, but even the more hopeful images seem to be filtered through a lens of dusty grey - like the cold, post-apocalyptic ash that overlays the landscape in Cormac McCarthy's gruelling new novel, The Road. "Is there even one photograph of the depression in colour?" the critic Max Kozloff asked in 1975.
Can a teen-age Olympic hopeful remake the image of women's boxing?
At the funeral, President Bush's father spoke of an America that was made in the departed president's image: "hopeful, bighearted, idealistic, daring, decent and fair".
