Citations:I have a dream

Implying that the speaker has a vision on a grand scale, usually about an ideal future

 * 1874, The Aldine: The Art Journal of America, volume 7, page 174:
 * I have a dream, a hope, a vision of a future American landlady who shall outcharm them all; but alas! as yet it has not come to pass.
 * 1884, C. Despard, "His Second Self" in The Quiver, volume 19, page 457:
 * And he added, sadly, "I have a dream that some day our sympathies will be more perfect than they are — that we shall know, without the help of laboured words, what our friends and our neighbours are feeling. ..."
 * 1983, Steven Swift, Where it hurts, page 13:
 * I have a dream that there exist super beings who could play a scene like this to make it count.
 * 1995, Mitri Raheb, Ruth C L Gritsch, I am a Palestinian Christian, page 112:
 * I have a dream that I will one day wake up and see two equal peoples living next to each other, coexisting in the land of Palestine, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan.
 * 1997, San Francisco Writerscorps, Curves on a Sidewalk Street: A Writerscorps Collection of San Francisco, page 58:
 * I have a dream about getting out of school early. I have a dream that there would be no more floods so people would not lose their homes.
 * 1999, James M. Gordon, Pray Ball!: The Spiritual Insights of a Jewish Sports Fan, page 47:
 * I have a dream that someday soon the modern State of Israel will develop into a country which will be self-sufficient, and one which is not dependent upon foreign aid.
 * 2003, Ejovi Nuwere, David Chanoff, Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace, page 71:
 * Well, I have a dream. I have a dream that there is no pool table. I have a dream that there is no black ball. There is no white ball. I have a dream, yes I do.
 * 2005, Kembrew McLeod, Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property, page 33:
 * I have a dream that one day . . . my heirs will shill my image in cell-phone ads and charge scholars fifty dollars a sentence to reprint this speech.
 * 2006, Beth Harry, Janette K. Klingner, Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education?, page 1:
 * In a neat, slanted script, Matthew wrote: I have a dream that there will be no more wars. There will be no more fighting, throw away the drugs. I have a dream that one day there will be no more rich people poor people. We will all be equal.
 * 2007, Mahmoud Watad, Teen Voices from the Holy Land: Who Am I to You?, page 84:
 * I have a dream that there will someday be peace and that we'll get along with the Palestinians.
 * 2008 Elrena Evans, Caroline Grant, Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, page 250
 * I have a dream that one day, academics — both men and women — will be able to take time to go up to the mountain top — or just the hill in the local park, or even a slope on campus - and cherish watching their toddlers roll down, confident that their careers aren't rolling downhill with them. I have a dream that academics will take the wisdom they gain from fostering their children's development back to their intellectual work, and feel confident that their community admires them for doing so.
 * 2008, Donald Martin, The Years of My Despair, page 27:
 * I have a dream that there will be no more children being molested by men and woman who are the children of Satan.
 * 2010, Betty Brogaard, The Homemade Atheist: A Former Evangelical Woman's Freethought Journey to Happiness, page 158:
 * I have a dream that one day my freedom from religion as well as another's freedom of religion will be respected.
 * 2012, Frank Viola, Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity, page 1:
 * I have a dream that one day the church of Jesus Christ will rise up to her God-given calling and begin to live out the true meaning of her identity—which is, the very heartthrob of God Almighty—the fiancée of the King of all Kings.