"no-hoper" meaning in English

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          "text": "Francis Urquhart: Six days to the first ballot. Who are we up against?",
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          "ref": "2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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          "word": "forlorn hope"
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          "sense": "someone without hope of success",
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          "word": "kansloze"
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