dashed hopes

But an ISIS pushback in recent days has dashed hopes of that happening.

Much to blame are our dashed hopes that freedom, faith, and knowledge can advance in unison for the benefit of mankind.

Forester, I see how this news afflicts you; I judged you too well to think that your own dashed hopes entered into your sorrow.

Lewis was thinking hard, thinking of the bitterness of dashed hopes, of self-confidence clutched at and lost.

I am bound to confess that this strange exordium dashed hopes which had already risen to a high pitch.

If he did nothing else the name of that bay would abide for ever as a memory of his trip to the land of chances and dashed hopes.

With another sardonic laugh for his dashed hopes, he rose jerkily, as if he was ready to go anywhere at once.