We only have simple wants. - English example sentence

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morbrorper August 20, 2022 August 20, 2022 at 3:28:18 PM UTC

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AlanF_US August 21, 2022 August 21, 2022 at 3:17:18 AM UTC

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What does the Japanese mean?

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DJ_Saidez August 21, 2022, edited August 21, 2022 August 21, 2022 at 3:31:54 AM UTC, edited August 21, 2022 at 3:32:06 AM UTC

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We only have simple wants.
All we have are small/insignificant wishes.
(DeepL) We have only modest hopes.

The Japanese is orphan.

small_snow August 21, 2022, edited August 21, 2022 August 21, 2022 at 4:49:04 AM UTC, edited August 21, 2022 at 6:29:34 AM UTC

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Hmm... I think the Japanese sentence means "We have only a ray of hope", but I'm not sure. It sounds a bit odd and ambiguous to me.

Depending on how I read it, it could be taken to mean the following:
We just have small wishes.

I don't know if my translations are natural or not.