“He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.”
“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
“Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.”
“It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.”
“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”
“When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.”