Crossword puzzle clue "almost without hope"

Almost without hope

"A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley

Stones "I can almost hear you ___, I can almost hear you cry"

Answer to the riddle "What has rivers without water, forests without trees, and cities without houses?"

Leia's only hope, at the beginning of "A New Hope"

Almost without proof

___ of desperation (something tried without much hope of success)

Without ___ of hope