Still, when Radford watches Gateshead take on Premier League West Brom this Saturday, he will be full of empathy for the non-leaguers - hoping upon hope that somebody up there will be pointing his finger at a fellow part-timer: "Here you go, lad, have a go…".
It's time to call the "Path to Prosperity" what it is: a path to moral and financial destruction of a country that stands for, and is built upon, hope and the dignity and value of all human beings.
Yes, I've been let down by these dramas time and again, yet still I throw myself upon them hoping to shine light upon hazy pieces of my childhood memory, those bygone feel-good times which live in a pocket of cells behind my ear marked "nice, confusing formative moments".
So Collins called upon Duda, hoping he could provide the thump that Bay could not.
Entrepreneurs have launched more than 700 B2B marketplaces, many of them based upon auctions, hoping to create commodity-like markets for everything from chemicals to steel.
Forty-five minutes before last night's first pitch, there was a wall of fans in blue and white descending upon Yankee Stadium and hoping to witness a celebration.
All told, an estimated 40,000 had descended upon the area hoping to bear witness to the climax of a gruelling election cycle.
"I'm hoping upon reflection that he will make the right decision," Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly was quoted as saying, without saying what he thinks that decision should be.
"He that lives upon hope," Benjamin Franklin wrote, "will die fasting".
Capriati tried to avoid it, and then to play to it, hoping upon hope it would break down under pressure.
