I had one brief hope that when the doors opened, I'd see cops, guns drawn, ready to arrest him and put an end to this.

After independence there were brief hopes for religious freedom.

A brief hope flared within her, that Vorkosigan's name might be a password to safety, but it died.

And these days even a brief hope was a rare thing of worth.

Bereft of his wan, brief hope, he had no other outlet for his pain.

My brief hope that the Mirage Makers would help - build a bridge for me perhaps - had long since died.

Her brief hope of simply squeezing out of this flickered and died.

Only a letdown by the home team early in the third period gave the Islanders some faint, brief, false hope for an upset.

Her brief hope had been dashed and it now seemed that nothing short of a miracle could save Barney's life.

But other than a brief hope that nobody else was caught, Toshio had little time to think of anything but the fight at hand.