There was currently a sense of cautious optimism on the ground.

I welcomed the new momentum with cautious optimism, aware there would likely be setbacks and delays.

So the key question now is how the world s leaders will respond. There are grounds for cautious optimism.

He came away with feelings of cautious hope and optimism, but also with the sense that setbacks and delays are inevitable.

The recent advances in the positions of some countries of the region with respect to non proliferation are cause for cautious optimism in that area.

This opportunity must not be wasted. But, given that the guerrillas have thwarted Colombians hopes in the past, we are approaching the negotiations with cautious optimism.

In 2004, the last round of the Somalia peace process appeared to come to an end and Somalis agreed to establish the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) and Transitional Federal Government (TFG), signalling a cautious optimism for peace and reconciliation for Somalia.

Robert Wright on optimism

So there's the optimism.

The Realism of Global Optimism

MADRID The latest round of negotiations in Geneva between Iran and the P5 1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany) has inspired cautious optimism. A window of opportunity to reach agreement on Iran s nuclear program appears to have opened.

This fills our hearts with optimism.

Brazil s Cautious Voters

Seeing the excitement that can be generated in young people through events like science festivals and networks of science centers gives rise to cautious optimism provided we seize the diversity of opportunities that informal learning offers. Informal learning implies a messy, unruly, and potentially subversive process.

Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism

Optimism is merely a lack of information.

Instead, there was a litany of astonishing optimism.

But there's also a wonderful case for optimism.

Perhaps we should say the same thing about optimism.

But now let's look at the case for optimism.

Certainly, nothing can give you more optimism than that.

You're more cautious. You're more vigilant.

They had to be very cautious.

In Cautious Praise of Latin America

Those who believe and are cautious

Those who believe and are cautious

Optimism is sometimes characterized as a belief, an intellectual posture.

Those who are cautious are not accountable for them in anything, but it is a reminder in order that they be cautious.

Those who are cautious are not accountable for them in anything, but it is a reminder in order that they be cautious.

And indeed, we are a cautious society...

And indeed, we are a cautious society...

And I therefore believe that optimism is what drives architecture forward.

But optimism foundered over the course of 2013, and frustration soared.

There is room for optimism, but much hard work lies ahead.

But, for the cautious a place of prosperity,

and from which the cautious shall be distanced.

But, for the cautious a place of prosperity,

Secondly, we need to aim off of the optimism of the generals.

But the cautious shall live amongst gardens and fountains

and Paradise shall be brought forward to the cautious.

Shu'aib said to them 'Will you not be cautious?

And We saved those who believed and were cautious.

Indeed, the cautious, shall live amid shades and fountains

But the cautious shall live amongst gardens and fountains

and Paradise shall be brought forward to the cautious.