Though I hoped for acclaim, I knew would never reach a mass audience.
Though not, I hope, for long.
Couldn't bear to sell it, suddenly, though I hope not for sentimental reasons: I wasn't sentimental about Granny's ring.
That was where he was christened, married and, he said, "where I will die, though I hope not for a good long time".
If (500) Days of Summer is to be remembered for anything, though, I hope it is for finally putting to death the curious film shorthand that if two people share semi-obscure (or even totally obscure) pop culture interests, they are made to be together.
This election may not yield the gentle outcome and humane transition I hope for, though I will continue to work for that.
"I hate to say it," she wrote, "but my year as a Turner juror has seriously dampened, though I hope not extinguished, my enthusiasm for contemporary art".
If you never log on to Facebook because you don't have time, then this post isn't for you (though I hope you don't see connecting with others as a waste of time?); but if you log on and scroll through all our posts (and using your husband's account counts, too!) then the truth is that you do have the time.
Grateful that even though it wasn't what I hoped for and even though it was never enough, it was… I feel like a free man.
"Though I hoped you wouldn't — for your sake".
I thought he'd be a legend, and in his way, though not the one I hoped for, he has.
