Let \(\Lambda \) be a \(\mathbb {k}\) -algebra where \(\mathbb {k}\) is a field of arbitrary characteristic, and let \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) be a full subcategory of \(\Lambda \) -Mod, the abelian category of left \(\Lambda \) -modules. In particular, \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) is a \(\mathbb {k}\) -category, i.e. the set of morphisms between objects in \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) is a vector space over \(\mathbb {k}\) and the composition of morphisms is \(\mathbb {k}\) -bilinear. Following M. Kleiner and I. Reiten, \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) is Hom-finite if the hom-space between any two objects in \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) is finite-dimensional over \(\mathbb {k}\) . We further say that \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) is Ext-finite if \(\dim _\mathbb {k}\textrm{Ext}^i_\Lambda (X,Y)<\infty \) for all objects X and Y in \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) . Let V be an object in \(\mathscr {A}_\mathbb {k}\) . In this note we prove that if \(\textrm{End}_\Lambda (V)\) is isomorphic to \(\mathbb {k}\) , then V has a universal deformation ring \(R(\Lambda ,V)\) , which is a local complete Noetherian commutative \(\mathbb {k}\) -algebra whose residue field is also isomorphic to \(\mathbb {k}\) . We use this result to prove that if \(\Lambda \) is a two-point infinite-dimensional gentle \(\mathbb {k}\) -algebra (in the sense of V. Bekkert et al), then \(R(\Lambda ,V)\) is isomorphic either to \(\mathbb {k}\) , to \(\mathbb {k}[\![t]\!]/(t^2)\) or to \(\mathbb {k}[\![t]\!]\) .