When I promise to keep your secret, I cross my heart and hope to die to show I'm being honest.

Even after repeated disappointments, she clung to the proverb hope springs eternal in the human breast when considering her next application.

On the old soldier's lips, the desperate line "I hope I may be shot" slipped out as he stood his ground in the trench.

Carved above the dungeon doorway, the faded inscription read, 'all hope abandon ye who enter here,' and its warning chilled every adventurer.

A weathered stone above the cavern mouth read, "abandon hope all ye who enter here," and the explorers hesitated.

If thou hopest for mercy, speak now and I shall listen.

Hopesay is a small village and civil parish west of Craven Arms in Shropshire, prized for its scenic walking trails and a 12th-century church.