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)

• millocracies
• millocracy
• millocrat
• millocrats
• mill owner
• mill owners
• millpond
• millponds
• millrace
• millraces
• millrind
• millrinds
• millrun
• millruns
• mills
• Mills-and-Boon
• Mills bomb
• millscale
• millscales
• mill-sixpence
• mill-sixpences
• millstone
• millstone grit
• millstones
• millstream