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A New Hope ( George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series )
A Streetcar Named
Desire
( Marlon Brando movie )
A Streetcar Named
Desire
( Tennessee Williams play )
A drowning man will clutch at a straw
A forlorn hope
Abandon hope all ye who enter here ( warning from Dante's Divine Comedy )
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Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you
wish
everybody did? ( Dial Soap advertising slogan )
Be careful what you
wish
for
Be the change that you
wish
to see in the world ( Mahatma Gandhi quotation )
Better luck next time
Beyond hope
Breach of
trust
Buckley's
chance
Build up your
hopes
Burning
desire
Castles in Spain
Castles in the air
Cat in Hell's
chance
Center of hope
Chance
of a lifetime
Chance
would be a fine thing
Chance
your arm
Chinaman's
chance
Clutch at straws
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Cooks who know
trust
Crisco ( Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan )
Cross my heart and hope to die
Cross your fingers
Crying Waiting Hoping ( Buddy Holly song )
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal
desire
( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
Dark before the dawn
Don't
trust
anyone over thirty
Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have one last
chance
)
Dream on
Drinking in the last
chance
saloon
Even
chance
Expect
the unexpected
Fat
chance
Fighting
chance
Fingers crossed
Gee, I
wish
I had a nickel ( Life Savers Candy advertising slogan )
Give Peace A
Chance
( John Lennon song )
Given up for lost
Glimmer of hope
God rest his soul
God willing and the creek don't rise
Great white hope
Half a
chance
Heart's
desire
Heaven help us
High
hopes
Hitch your wagon to a star
Hope against hope
Hope for the best
Hope springs eternal
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
I believe in angels, something good in everything I see ( ABBA lyric )
I feel like a Guinness - I
wish
you were ( Guinness advertising slogan )
I
wish
I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener ( Oscar Meyer advertising slogan )
I
wish
they all could be Caledonia girls ( Caledonia Airlines advertising slogan )
If only
In God we
trust
In with a
chance
In your dreams
Jump at the
chance
Keep hope alive
Keep your fingers crossed
Keep your spirits up
Land of hope and glory
Last
chance
Light at the end of the tunnel
Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever ( Mahatma Ghandhi quotation )
Love conquers all
Main
chance
Not a chinaman's
chance
Not a hope
Not the ghost of a
chance
On the off
chance
On the wings of a prayer
One fine day
Pie in the sky
Pin your
hopes
on
Please let it be a dream
Put your
trust
in God, and keep your powder dry
Set your cap at
Shot in the dark
Snowball in hell's
chance
Take a
chance
on me ( ABBA lyric )
That Obscure Object Of
Desire
( Luis Bunuel movie )
The Great White Hope ( Nickname of James J.Jeffries )
The Peerless Leader ( Nickname of Frank
Chance
)
The best laid plans
The best laid schemes of mice and men
The best of British
The best of British luck
The next president of the United States
The
wish
is father to the thought
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Touch wood
Triumph of hope over experience
Trust
and obey
Trust
me, I'm a doctor
When you
wish
upon a star
Where there's life, there's hope
Wish
for the moon
Wish
me luck as you wave me goodbye
Wish
you were here
Wishful thinking
You can
rely
on the lion ( British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan )
You can
trust
your car to the man who wears the star ( Texaco Fuel advertising slogan )
You don't get a second
chance
at a first impression
You only get one
chance
to make a first impression
You'll
wish
you had never been born
Yours faithfully (
Trust
House Forte advertising slogan )