hope against hope (English, verb)
expansion: hope against hope (third-person singular simple present hopes against hope, present participle hoping against hope, simple past and past participle hoped against hope)
Senses:
glosses: To continue to hope, even when what is hoped for seems unlikely or impossible.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: hopes against hope
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoping against hope
tags: participle
present
form: hoped against hope
tags: participle
past
form: hoped against hope
tags: past