Meanings of pious hope in English

It is possible that repeated calls for more theory may be a pious hope.

Such statements are often no more than a pious hope, but Bo Bardi meant it.

The peace between the two countries was too ephemeral to permit the realisation of his pious hope.

They had sailed into the Channel in pious hope, with the blessed banner waving over their heads.

This is no faint and pious hope.

That seemed a pious hope at the time, and the more so after the events of the past 10 days.

That a new order is arising, and that it is on the whole beneficent, is not merely a pious hope.

With pious hope has many a pang relieved;

Let us at least express the pious hope that the Dean of Durham, Dr. Welldon, has had nothing to do with it.

The Buddhist dead are not called gods, but Buddhas (Hotoke),-whichterm, of course, expresses a pious hope, rather than a faith.

Who, reading that sober piece of information, would have dreamed that the stage-line in question was at the time nothing but a pious hope?

The religious pilgrim does not expect to find the old prophets, but he has a pious hope of finding the abuses which the prophets denounced.

The physiology of the possibility of the transformation of one species into another is based, as yet, rather on pious hope than on accomplished fact.

Usually the pious hope is expressed that, if he should be guilty of such wickedness, he may rot in filth, and be reborn a worm.

These words-"nationalunity"-mustnot be allowed to be come merely a high-sounding phrase, a vague generality, a pious hope, to which everyone can give lip-service.

There is no plan, no synopsis to be filled in with pious hopes or sanctimonious actions.