false hope

Remarkably, the authors found that constructive doubt and constructive hope both correlated with increased policy support and willingness to take political action, whereas false hope and fatalistic thinking had a negative association.

This is not the first time that scientists received false hope about proof of extraterrestrial microorganic life.

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

No more “false hope”, Starmer said.

Sir Keir Starmer has said he would not offer "easy answers" or "false hope" but promised a Britain "built to last" in his first speech to the Labour Party conference as prime minister.