jQuery GUID as string and "Syntax error, unrecognized expression" -

I am trying to identify an HTML element by using GUID from an item in a database.

I have a GUID from SQL that I am using in HTML as a unique ID for a tag. For the most part it works, as long as I do not try to use it with jQUery. The code looks like this:

  var thisID = '#lesson' + string (this .model.attributes.ID); Warning (thisID); $ (ThisID) FadeTo ('slow', 0.5);   
 The alert works just fine, but jQuery causes this error:  
  Unicode error: syntax error, unrecognized expression: #lesson {35E87357-1251 -4C68-A1B2-8F83A4B3E0E9}   
 What's weird, if I remove the brackets from the GUID (e.g., after the initial SQL call), the string looks like this :    # Texton 35E 87357-1251-4C68-A1B2-8F83A4B3EE9E   
 ... then it works but I'm brave Not Htaunga. Apart from this, it does not seem like a case where I connect the string. Any ideas how can I fix this?   "post-text" itemprop = "text"> 
 Curly bracing means that you are defining an object in javascript. You need to avoid them from  \\  so that they can experiment with jQuery.