Collocations for hopeless - adj.

be, look, seem
feel
She felt lonely and completely hopeless.

absolutely, completely, pretty, quite, totally, utterly
The situation seemed completely hopeless.
He's a pretty hopeless dancer (= very bad). (BrE)

apparently, seemingly
rather

at (esp. BrE)
I'm absolutely hopeless at languages.

with (esp. BrE)
I've always been hopeless with machinery.

Hopeless is used with these nouns:
cause, longing, love, mess, romantic, situation, task