Finaly found the passage in "Line by Line" by Claire Kehrwald Cook, in which is written: Hopefully - Word watchers who wince at what some call a "dangling hopefully" have much to endure these days. "Hopefully" sometimes seems to begin every third sentence, but only rarely does the sentence indicate who is full of hope. The adverb is unexcetionable when it means "in a hopeful manner," as in 'The candidates are hopefully awaiting the election results,' but it's suspect in 'Hopefully the results will be favorable,' where no one is behaving hopefully. Some critics maintain that you cannot make hopefully mean "it is hoped that." If that's the sense you intend, that's the wording you should use--or, less formally, 'I hope that' or 'let's hope that.' While you still risk criticism if you use a dangling hopefully, many commentators seem resigned to this usage, bowing to its wide popularity.....A note in the 1982 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, while not condemning the secondary sense of hopefully as incorrect, concludes that it has become "such a bugbear to traditionalists that it is best avoided on grounds of civility." You might decide to forgo the controversial hopefully simply because it's overworked, but if you object to it as ungrammatical, you should recognize that certain other adverbs are in the same category. Any adverb describing a mental attitude is inappropriate, by strict standards, in a sentence that does not indicate who has that attitude. If 'hopefully' is incorrect in 'Hopefully it is not true,' words like sorrowfully and regretfully would also be wrong. But adverbs like fortunately and regrettably, which do not describe states of mind, are acceptable sentence modifiers; they mean "it is fortunate that" and "it is regretable that." 'Regrettably' can safely replace the objectionable 'regretfully' in a sentence like 'Regretfully, the trains don't leave at convenient times.' Unfortunately, English does not have a 'hopably' to replace the questionable 'hopefully' in 'Hopefully, the trains will run on time.' Taken from Line by Line (which is a pretty good book, >from all that I've read.) Just thought I'd share another opinion on the subject...:) Chris