glimmer of hope

English

Noun

glimmer of hope (plural glimmers of hope)

  1. A good omen; a small but undependable chance of something positive to come.
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in A Promised Land, Crown:
      After more than a year of unrelenting bad economic numbers, we finally received a glimmer of hope.

Synonyms

  • dawn of hope
  • flicker of hope
  • gleam of hope
  • ray of hope
  • shimmer of hope
  • sign of hope
  • sliver of hope
  • spark of hope

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