1 hoping that something will be true when it probably will not: --
She fondly believed that he might come.
Perhaps one might look back fondly on one's previous career, but he has a valid point.
The borough council one-and-a-half years ago fondly hoped that there would be a short-term solution.
I fondly believed that when minimum lending rate was abolished the market would be left free.
People fondly imagine that we can run this service purely as a business proposition.
He could then, as he fondly hoped, forget about both capital and income.
Indeed, the opposite is the case; he writes fondly and enthusiastically of his and his fiancee's plans for their future.
We will thank him profoundly for all that he did, and remember him and his beautiful and vivacious wife very fondly.
The committee system has been spoken of fondly.