forlorn hope /fər-lörnˈ hōp/

1. Orig, a body of soldiers selected for some service of especial danger
2. A desperate enterprise of last resort
3. A vain or faint hope (from association with hope, in the sense of expectation)

• soft tops
• soft touch
• single-entry
• single European market
• single-eyed
• single-figure
• single figures
• single file
• single-foot
• single-footed
• single-footing
• single-foots
• single-handed
• single-handedly
• single-hearted
• single-heartedly
• singlehood
• singlehoods
• single house
• single houses
• single in-line memory module
• single in-line memory modules
• single-lens reflex
• single-log
• single-logarithmic