But he had no illusions about the future.
His business depends directly on foreign spending, and he has few illusions about the future.
Some illusions about the future and hopes of a happy return to prewar stability could therefore be retained.
The next morning, Juncker reportedly called the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, claiming May was "on a different galaxy" prompting her to make a speech in the Bundestag suggesting London drop its "illusions" about the future.
We have no illusions about the future.
"It's not dark yet, but it's getting there," he warned in "Time Out of Mind". Oberst has no illusions about the future.
But I am under no illusions about what the future might hold for us.
The illusion of knowledge about the future clearly verges on ideology.
Lakatos' theory of research progress offers an explanation of why knowledge creation is so important within the scientific community, showing too why an illusion of knowledge about the future is persistent.
For instance, breast self-examination can lead to over-treatment, learning that one has a predisposing gene can create a detrimental illusion of knowing more about the future than one does, and data about one's vital signs can be meaningless if taken out of a context of interpretation.
