"hopeful plea" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an appeal or request made with optimism and a sense of positive expectation. Example: "The lawyer made a hopeful plea to the judge, asking for a reduced sentence for her client based on new evidence."
I remember vividly when I first read it, about a year after I came out, and it served as a hopeful plea from another era: "Don't give up".
Listening to the pope, it struck me that his diagnosis of the unrest and inequality in the world comes with a hopeful plea that humans be guided by the better angels of our nature – not by the dark forces of hatred, discrimination and exclusion.
He is due back in court on April 21, and prosecutors said they were hopeful that a plea agreement could be reached in his case.
The Associated Press quoted Mr. Parker's lawyer, Cathy Green, as saying: "Jimmy has made the decision to accept responsibility for his actions and is hopeful that his plea will enable his family and that of the Zantops to begin the healing process".
Mandelbaum's theory about democracy's natural evolution is both hopeful and a useful plea for patience to those who would try to impose democracy by force.
Poor Zuckerberg is evidently also going to spend a year being inundated by pleas from hopeful publishers.
Fox News host Sean Hannity made "a personal plea" to U.S. Senate hopeful Ashley Judd on Thursday: "Run, Ashley, run!" Hannity urged to the actress and social activist to ignore naysayers who are seeking other candidates for the race in Kentucky -- if only for entertainment value.
So it is with a heavy but hopeful heart that I make this plea.
The ballad, "plain in structure," is a "hopeful and sweet anthem" and "lilting plea" accompanied by "syrupy production".
"The administration has clearly heard our plea, and I'm hopeful we'll see real change on our campuses as a result," Bolger told The Huffington Post.
Ms Smart is hopeful the government will listen to her plea because it "is saying there should be local choice".
