false hope

Examples (10)

• He wasn't trying to give her false hope.
• It is cruel to offer someone false hope when you know the outcome is bleak.
• The politician's promises were nothing but false hope for the unemployed workers.
• She clung to the false hope that he might change his mind.
• Don't build your plans on the false hope of winning the lottery.
• Initial positive data gave investors a sense of false hope before the market crashed.
• The rescue team's brief signal turned out to be a false hope.
• Living on false hope can be more damaging than accepting a difficult reality.
• Are we just giving ourselves false hope by waiting another day?
• The experimental treatment, once seen as a miracle, ultimately provided only false hope.