is there any hope?

OK, I have read some of the other post on how to bring your lawn back to life. after moving in a couple of weeks ago we are still trying to get the gardens under some kind of control.

I have been raking my grass for what seems like a century, and I am armed with boxes of grass seed. I cannot get all the dead bits out of my grass though. Here are the pictures, and these are after the raking attemp (all day today and some of yesterday)
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Can you please give me some hope or further ideas?

Thanks
Lel

 

soz, here are the pics

 

Looks to me like the garden has been overgrown and the grass has been really high and you have just cut it down. It looks to me like it is dominated by very coarse grasses. I am wondering whether there might be a fair bit of couch grass in there which is a real pain. If it is that bad you might consider starting aqain.
If it was me I would let it grow a bit so you have some nice green growth and then I would spray it with glyphosate, keeping it off any plants. When it was dead I would then spend the summer digging it, raking it down, firming and levelling, with the intention to sow grass seed this autumn.
Sometimes a lawn can get so bad it is easier to start from scratch. That is what I did on our first house, front and back and the back lawn was big.

 

I would get rid of what you have. The grass appears to have been left to fend for itself, overgrown and its just went 'wild'. Either cut it as short as you can then cover with about half an inch of sharp sand and turf the whole area.If you do turf remember to water loads.You could rotivate and level off then grass seed. I note there seems to be a shadow cast by a tree. If this is the case buy gras seed for shaded areas.

One thing for sure, you will do nothing with what you have at the momnet.

 

This lawn looks to have had some quite decent fine leaved grass sown initially. Looking at the pictures I would stop raking and give it a mow. A lot of what looks dead, isnt. Give the lawn a liquid feed every two weeks to green it up and see what you have at the end of the season. When th elawn looks to be growing, mow regulaly. Grass grows from the base so the more you mow the thicker it becomes. In late september re sow any bare patches. Bet you'll be surprised at the result. visit www.superspray.co.uk and look at lawn magic. I can recommend this product and it works out about 2p per sq yard to feed. Ive said before Im not a lover of pelleted feeds as they can brown the lawn if it doesnt rain and you need a lawn spreader to apply.
You lawn looks fairly small so you would be OK applying LM with a watering can instead of their hose end feeder.