false hope

Rory Golden, who was on the Oceangate expedition when contact was lost, recently told the BBC those on board the surface vessel experienced four days of fear and “false hope”.

But we might as well be honest about that desperately false hope, too.

A witness to the Titan submersible disaster has told BBC News about the fear and false hope felt by those on its support ship.

“We lived in false hope for four days,” Mr Golden said.

No more “false hope”, Starmer said.