hope: unknown command

Due to the cheap way in which I generate cookies for e-mail messages every so often mutt ends up trying to interpret the second line of two line cookies as commands. From time to time this is what greets me when I fire it up:

$ mutt
Error in /home/broonie/.muttrc, line 261: hope: unknown command
source: errors in /home/broonie/.muttrc
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