How to show a dockwidget that is in auto hide mode

[jankrassnigg]

I have a dock-widget that I want to bring to the foreground. Previously I used the "raise" command to accomplish this. Now I have enabled auto-hide on it (great feature!), but when it is in the hidden state, "raise" doesn't have an effect. I've also not found any command to unhide a dockwidget programmatically. I assume I'm missing something.