When waking up my macbook air from sleep, display will not turn back on.

My mid 2011 macbook air running lion is having some issues. The display, after the laptop has been woken up from sleep, will not come back on. The rest of the computer is fully functional as when i press the volume keys, i can hear the sound that it makes, the keyboard brightness keys also work. Theonly way i can fix this at the moment is doing a force shutdown and turning it back on again. If anyone has an answer to this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Having much the same problem with my 2011 11" Air, running 10.8.2 and wondering if you ever got any resolution on this. I've had the same issues through several versions of Mountain Lion.
My display does come up, but what I see is my login screen (I have it set to require a password on wake), but with a beachball, and I can't type in the password field. I can tell that other processes are running (for instance, just now I could hear a YouTube video playing) but I can't make it respond to input.
I've also had times where I put it to sleep by closing the lid, only to come back some time later to hear the fan running and everything unresponsive.
I've reset the PRAM, reinstalled Mountain Lion, reset the SMC. I'm purposely not running a lot of extra software.
Just curious, are you using FileVault at all?

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