"Only Hope" was sung by Mandy Moore

Mandy Moore

Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. In 2007, she took an adult pop-folk direction with the release of...

 for the film A Walk to Remember (arranged and produced by the film's composer Mervyn Warren

Mervyn Warren

Mervyn Edwin Warren is an American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee...

) and is included in her compilation The Best of Mandy Moore

The Best of Mandy Moore

The Best of Mandy Moore is a greatest hits compilation album featuring songs from Mandy Moore, released in 2004 through Epic Records.-History:...

, although left out of her 2002 release. It was slated as the second single after "Cry" which, however, was not a hit and consequently "Only Hope" was not released to radio. A music video—largely a duplicate of the movie—was shot and was released successfully to music channels in Asia.
The character Go Hye Mi ( miss A

Miss A

Miss A , commonly stylized as miss A, is a four member South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment through their sub-label AQ Entertainment in 2010. The group consists of members from both China and South Korea...

's Suzy ) covers this song twice in the Korean drama Dream High

Dream High

Dream High is a South Korean television drama series broadcast by Korean Broadcasting System in 2011. It features Suzy, Taecyeon, IU, Wooyoung, Ham Eun Jung and Kim Soo-hyun. It aired on the 3 January 2011 and finished on the 28 February 2011 after 16 successful episodes. This drama is popular...

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In the film A Walk to Remember

Jamie sings to Landon during the school play where they fall in love. The song ends when Landon kisses Jamie. Additionally Switchfoot's original version was played towards the end of the movie when they got married in the church, transitioning from an orchestral score piece that was influenced by the song and was specifically written to segue into it.