diff --git a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index 54539503c..9b005368e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ Changed
   `$XDG_DATA_DIR`. Using a binary in `$PATH` won't work anymore with
   `--userscript`.
 - New design for error pages
+- Link filtering for hints now checks if the text is contained anywhere in
+  the link, and matches case-insensitively.
 
 Fixed
 ~~~~~
diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 1b0a186df..0a2687409 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ Contributors, sorted by the number of commits in descending order:
 * Tim Harder
 * Thiago Barroso Perrotta
 * Matthias Lisin
+* Jean-Christophe Petkovich
 * Helen Sherwood-Taylor
 * HalosGhost
 * Gregor Pohl
diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
index e3b3592db..009fc8650 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ class HintManager(QObject):
         for elems in self._context.elems.values():
             try:
                 if (filterstr is None or
-                        str(elems.elem).lower().startswith(filterstr)):
+                        filterstr.casefold() in str(elems.elem).casefold()):
                     if self._is_hidden(elems.label):
                         # hidden element which matches again -> show it
                         self._show_elem(elems.label)