live in hope

idiom

chiefly British

: to hope for something when one knows that it will probably not happen or be true

We live in hope that there will be some survivors of the crash.

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As rendered in this lushly experimental production, The Secret Garden is a beautiful, affirming story about finding a language for our grief and learning how to bloom and live in hope again. —