I rushed to the ox, in the vain hope of overtaking them.

He did so in the vain hope of keeping Daddy at home.

At first they stopped, in the vain hope of catching their assailants.

But he knew in his heart that it was a vain hope.

It is a vain hope, for but a few bodies are claimed.

If they are anything like humans, that may be a vain hope.

Maybe it was merely bone weakness.' It seemed a vain hope.

He looked around him in the vain hope of recognizing some familiar headland.

The next point marked is the owner's vain hope, in sending his Son.

Then came one of those wild suggestions of a vain hope.

Erica hoped that her own mascara wasn't running - no doubt a vain hope.

Sonja Hökberg could have left the station in the vain hope of getting away.

Groups of men huddled together in the effort to keep warm: a vain hope.

Give up that vain hope and stay here with me.

It may seem a vain hope, but help may be nearer than we think.

A little more reflection would have quashed their vain hope.