Wishful sort (7)

I believe the answer is:

dreamer

(Other definitions for dreamer that I've seen before include "Romantic" , "One imagines" , "One lost in abstraction" , "Idealist - visionary" , ""You may say I'm a __" (John Lennon)" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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