It made me feel so helpless, hopeless and ill. However, the Sith consider the Jedi's aspirations to be either hopeless or pathetic. Is political utopia a hopeful dream or hopeless fantasy? His lyrical approach involves bleak accounts of a harrowing and hopeless struggle. Washington remained baffled why the Dutch were so inexplicably enamoured of an obviously hopeless cause. He cried monotonously, in a dull, hopeless way. The song was an expression of how I felt&colon; hopeless and nihilistic. It is usually considered bad etiquette to continue playing in a completely hopeless position. The cities just seem big and hopeless. Llywelyn soon realised his position was hopeless and quickly surrendered. Many INA soldiers realised that they were in a hopeless position. Thus the title, 'The Saint for the Hopeless and the Despaired'. Fran otherwise is a hopeless romantic. I generals are often portrayed as callously persisting in repeated hopeless attacks against trenches. I said it would be hopeless position.