diff --git a/Cheetah/ImportManager.py b/Cheetah/ImportManager.py
index 17ab4808..2922678a 100644
--- a/Cheetah/ImportManager.py
+++ b/Cheetah/ImportManager.py
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ def importHook(self, name, globals=None, locals=None,
         # first see if we could be importing a relative name
         _sys_modules_get = sys.modules.get
         contexts = [None]
-        if globals:
+        if (PY2 or not name or level > 0) and globals:
             importernm = globals.get('__name__', '')
             if importernm:
                 if hasattr(_sys_modules_get(importernm), '__path__'):
@@ -477,7 +477,8 @@ def importHook(self, name, globals=None, locals=None,
         if i < len(nmparts):
             if ctx and hasattr(sys.modules[ctx], nmparts[i]):
                 return sys.modules[nmparts[0]]
-            del sys.modules[fqname]
+            if fqname in sys.modules:
+                del sys.modules[fqname]
             raise ModuleNotFoundError("No module named %s" % fqname)
         if fromlist is None:
             if context:
diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index d821b913..6277d0b9 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Bug fixes:
   - Fixed ``ImportHooks``: it must raise ``ModuleNotFoundError``
     instead of ``ImportError``.
 
+  - Fixed absolute import in ``ImportHooks`` under Python 3.
+
   - Fixed ``Template.webInput``: Use ``urllib.parse.parse_qs``
     instead of ``cgi.FieldStorage``; Python 3.13 dropped ``cgi``.