And then the tsunami seemed to wash away the last vain dream of the 20th century: the nuclear answer.

They shall not wake, though fair the vision seem: Whate'er sick Hope may whisper, vain the dream!

The dream of godlike self-sufficiency is a vain dream; freedom requires myth to have a content.

Was my dream vain, even then?

While I was having vain dreams about a woman I loved who dumped me.

You will turn no more vain dreams into unsatisfactory conquests.

You were too busy with your eternal plotting, with your vain dreams of freedom, to notice what was going on under your very nose.

Then, suddenly changing his tone and manner, he added with great solemnity - "Waking life hath false and vain dreams; but sleep is sometimes a mighty prophet.

Interior couldn't quite stifle that burgeoning hope and the somewhat vain dream that this new Talent might eclipse Siglen.

But finally you see she is of common clay, the same as you, with faults and fears and vain, foolish dreams and petty vices.