"small wish" is a perfectly correct and usable expression in written English
You would typically use it when expressing the hope that something will come to pass, but with a more modest degree of expectation or a lesser wish than one might usually have. For example, "I have a small wish that things will get better soon."
They haven't entirely lost their spirit of mischief – Small Wishes is a likable country jangle featuring the surprising tinkle of a barroom piano – but for the most part, there's a distinct lack of joy, discovery and invention here.
Ellipsis is nothing so simple, though, as a return to the jagged energy of their early, pre-stadium albums; Friends and Enemies begins so poppily it could be Chvrches, but for the crunching guitars, while Re-Arrange slips into some R&B style, Herex a malevolent reggae groove, and Small Wishes a dippily demented country flourish.
A program in the Netherlands is in the business of granting small wishes to nursing home patients.
In the end, the dinner table isn't a potbelly stove or a circus: the dinner table is an altar -- a sacred place where we learn to sacrifice a little more of me and embrace a little more of us, where we learn to let go of what we want and embrace what is, where we die to small wishes so we can awaken to big gifts.
If you are building an extra-small wishing well, you may need to use a smaller spindle.
These people — losers to too many of us, though not to themselves or to those they left behind in small villages — wish to receive the developed world's simplest yet most grace-filled benediction: a chance, through hard work, to enter the flowing middle class.
I shake her small hand, wish her well, and I mean it.
At each small sorrow wishing she were dead, Yet gay at little pleasures.
Though still small, it wishes to oppose its extreme version of Sunni Islam and opposes the government, the Houthis – and AQAP.
This is a small-business wish list for tax reform, but Joy Taylor predicts that capital gains tax breaks are going away.
