diff --git a/src/blackmisc/valueobject.cpp b/src/blackmisc/valueobject.cpp
index 0376ac525..0fd03beb2 100644
--- a/src/blackmisc/valueobject.cpp
+++ b/src/blackmisc/valueobject.cpp
@@ -175,8 +175,3 @@ namespace BlackMisc
         return argument;
     }
 }
-
-uint qHash(const BlackMisc::CValueObject &value)
-{
-    return value.getValueHash();
-}
diff --git a/src/blackmisc/valueobject.h b/src/blackmisc/valueobject.h
index 0e8b2be6d..d38072bbd 100644
--- a/src/blackmisc/valueobject.h
+++ b/src/blackmisc/valueobject.h
@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef BLACKMISC_VALUEOBJECT_H
 #define BLACKMISC_VALUEOBJECT_H
 
-namespace BlackMisc
-{
-    class CValueObject;
-}
-
-/*!
- * qHash overload, needed for storing CValueObject in a QSet.
- * \param value
- * \return
- */
-// Appears before all #include directives, to workaround an issue with GCC where the overload is not visible in QSet
-unsigned int qHash(const BlackMisc::CValueObject &value);
-
 #include "blackmisc/debug.h"
 #include <QtDBus/QDBusMetaType>
 #include <QString>
@@ -364,6 +351,22 @@ namespace BlackMisc
         return variant != uc;
     }
 
+    /*!
+     * qHash overload, needed for storing CValueObject in a QSet.
+     * \param value
+     * \param seed
+     * \return
+     */
+    inline uint qHash(const BlackMisc::CValueObject &value, uint seed = 0)
+    {
+        return ::qHash(value.getValueHash(), seed);
+    }
+
+    // Needed so that our qHash overload doesn't hide the qHash overloads in the global namespace.
+    // This will be safe as long as no global qHash has the same signature as ours.
+    // Alternative would be to qualify all our invokations of the global qHash as ::qHash.
+    using ::qHash;
+
 } // namespace
 
 #endif // guard