'innermost hopes' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe someone's deepest wishes and aspirations. For example, "Although I was struggling with depression, I was still able to cling to my innermost hopes for a better future."
(Within the Zone lies the so-called Room, where innermost hopes are revealed and even realized).
"Hawkes works some kind of miracle despite the self-evident physical limitations of the role," wrote Peter DeBruge in Variety, adding later, "His face is an open book to the man's innermost hopes and fears".
Living within the walls of a Paris train station, Hugo comes into contact with an avuncular toyshop owner (Ben Kingsley) on to whose hidden past he projects his innermost hopes and dreams.
Here I was, behind enemy lines and vicariously feeling the innermost hopes and desires of a group of (mostly) men who all seemed to be awaiting the birth of the same baby.
It takes a bit of courage to tell a room full of strangers about your innermost hopes and dreams.
This allows Malorie Blackman to deploy dramatic irony to maximum effect as Vee and Nathan desperately try to second-guess each other's innermost feelings, hopes and suspicions to which the reader gains instant access.
So I can understand why there's such a slew of books seeking to reconstruct the innermost emotions, hopes and aspirations of outwardly unremarkable characters whose function just seems to be to act as props in the story of somebody else.
The fact is that we've had low, fairly stable inflation expectations for a generation now: I know that there are economists for whom it's always 1978, who are constantly fearing — or, I suspect, in their innermost selves, hoping — for a return of the good old days when inflation was a constant threat.
They were never the closest of friends, yet their conversations seemed to bring out Obama's innermost thoughts and hopes.
Love without taking risks - the risk of sharing your innermost thoughts, fears and hopes, the risk of being misunderstood or thought too ambitious, and the risk of rejection - love without risk would be a puny project, without the wherewithal to stir and excite, or to reach union between independent and unpredictable spirits.
It doesn't matter if it's a journal of your innermost thoughts or a short story you are hoping to sell, you own the copyright.
