dare (to) hope/dream/believe
phraseusually in negatives
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if you dare not hope, dream, or believe that something will happen or is true, you think it is very unlikely, but you would really like it to happenI never dared dream that peace would come so soon.
The work was finished much sooner than he’d ever dared to hope.
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