There are glimmers of hope.
The suffering is great, the prospects for further atrocities are bleak and the glimmers of hope are too dim for us not to examine and re-examine all choices.
Last year it was named as the northern business of the year—a well-deserved accolade—but such success stories are only small glimmers of light in a dark and bleak environment.
Amidst the fashionable gloom there are at least some glimmers of light.
There are only glimmers of prospects for the future.
Quite the opposite - a realistic assessment suggests that there are only a few faint glimmers of hope on a dark horizon.
There were glimmers of that in yesterday's debate.
However, there have been some glimmers of hope in the recent past.