"underhope" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1896, Prosser Hall Frye, The Substance of His House, page 44:",
          "text": "Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries\nAnd the great stedfast underhope that never dies.",
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          "text": "Yesterday they went with underhopes of home\nAnd mostly glad to go - how impotent to save […]",
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          "text": "He also has a greater hope, what he might have called a tremulous underhope: that the neighbours who say that 'he hears it not now' might be mistaken.",
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