The faint hope that NATO could negotiate a quick way out still beat in some hearts.
Given the factional nature of Korean politics, however, it is a faint hope.
To anyone who tracks America's budget debates, that is a faint hope.
The fraying tempers do not augur well for the faint hope that still exists of launching a new round of multilateral trade talks this year.
But coming off the bottom of the table now looks a faint hope with the Dons seven points adrift of Killie with three games remaining.
On a recent Sunday morning, after services at the tiny Lebanon Lutheran Church in Amidon, local farmers talked about their plight with a mixture of exasperation and faint hope.
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Meehan is expecting a packed Parc des Sports Aguilera on Saturday as Bath go in search of a win that would give them a faint hope of Heineken Cup progress.
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One faint hope for the protestors lies with a local historian whose book claims that the Battle of Hastings was actually held on the route of the road near Crowhurst - a possibility dismissed as "ridiculous" by the council.
Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
This time the results were inconclusive but there's now a faint glimmer of hope.
That's the one faint ray of hope, that we do have precisely this 10-member, fully bipartisan, and I think truly open-minded commission.
And for those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel, but if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be.
Faint though it is, there is a glimmer of hope in financial markets: interest rates on short-term loans between banks and on longer-term corporate debt have fallen notably since the autumn, and there has been a flood of new bond issues.
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