Comment by selenography

Sure, if by "now" you mean "at least since Geoffrey Chaucer's time":

> And thys vyce cometh of false hope that he thynketh he thall lyue longe, but that hope fayleth ful ofte.

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Workes_of_Geffray_C... [2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=false+hope&yea...

Or, come to that, "at least since Cicero's time":

> ...cui legi cum vestra dignitas vehementer adversetur, istius spes falsa et insignis impudentia maxime suffragatur.

[3] https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/perseus/citequery3.p...