Possible Clues:

• A desire, or aspiration
• It's silent in honor
• It's dropped by Cockneys
• A source of irritation at the end of March
• The letter h in full
• I may go after this character
• Lying in wait, characteristically one might read letter
• It starts here
• Attending church I joined in first bit of hymn?
• The most common element of Ho Chi Minh's character