Sentence examples for hopeful only from inspiring English sources

With any signs of progress, with each stay in rehab, they become hopeful, only to have their hopes dashed again and again.

Bart Van Leysabeth, a spokesman for Belgium's public prosecutor, says, "It is a difficult case," adding that authorities are "not very hopeful". Only one thing is certain.

"I'm hopeful only a minor percentage of cricketers are involved in it but the truth is we really don't know".

"In the absence of that, I'm not sure an agreement can be reached, but we are still hopeful". Only four City Council members have been involved in the closed session talks, which likely means they are at stalemate on the union's offer.

The second school is hopeful — but only because these intellectuals foresee ruin, too, and can hardly wait for the decadent modern world to be replaced by one more to their liking.

That sense of throwback was handily matched by the best picture hopefuls, only one of which ("The Descendants") is actually set in the present day.

In a recent CNN poll that tested the strength of possible Republican hopefuls, only one of the seven most likely candidates (that would be Representative Ron Paul) will actually hold an elected office by the end of this year.

Of the GOP presidential hopefuls, only two —South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and former New York Governor George Pataki — are on the record endorsing the scientific consensus that carbon emissions are warming the planet.

I can only trust that there are more citizens like me, who are not only hopeful, but inspired to push even more toward co-creating a world of balance, peace, wisdom and lots of laughter.

Still, I closed this book feeling not only hopeful but enthused — if not to "friend" Cameron Diaz then to temper my pessimism about today's youth.

She wants to help her family and her community, and she is not only hopeful, but confident that she will get there.