Hoping against hope!
I have heard this phrase used meaning still having hope when there was little reason to still have hope. However, the phrase doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Can anyone explain this?
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That is, when you think about it, a tricky one to parse.Seems to me it's kind of a play on the different connotations of "hope" as a verb vs. "hope" as a noun. One can "hope" for something even if...
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Not that this makes the phrase any more transparent, but in Paul's letter to the Romans (4:18) he refers to those who "against hope believed in hope". The definitions of hope given by the OED include...
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