  Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray
interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud
is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if cosmic rays can leave
the accelerator and diffusively reach the cloud. We consider the situation in
which a molecular cloud is located in the proximity of a supernova remnant
which is accelerating cosmic rays and gradually releasing them into the
interstellar medium. We calculate the multiwavelength spectrum from radio to
gamma rays which emerges from the cloud as the result of cosmic ray
interactions. The total energy output is dominated by the gamma ray emission,
which can exceed the emission from other bands by an order of magnitude or
more. This suggests that some of the unidentified TeV sources detected so far,
with no obvious or very weak counterpart in other wavelengths, might be
associated with clouds illuminated by cosmic rays coming from a nearby source.
