Well given the current huge wave of noobs who ABSOLUTELY want to mine (at least that's what I see in the French subforum), I still think we could have another year.
I had a "thuggish" friend of a friend come over the other day going on about "this bitcoin thing" and how he and his brother were going to start "mining money." I'd have felt bad if I didn't give him the obligatory explanation about difficulty increases and ROI but he wasn't hearing it.
There definitely may be a chance, though I wouldn't base my strategy upon that hope.