belief

In ideologically charged situations, one’s prejudices end up affecting one’s factual beliefs.

One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “Evil Empire” were animated by this belief.

The incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. Nick.

The congressman traces his belief in Santa Claus back 40 years, when he was a student going to college “on the GI Bill.”

His belief that officers really did find his fingerprints at the scene seems to have encouraged his false confession.

If any belief summed up the players I was writing about, here it was.

The case has been different with the movements induced by contact with Christian forms of belief.

The Gods, in short belong to the region of belief, while morality belongs to that of practice.

That which Jack saw confirmed his belief of a perfect understanding between the different parties.

Or, as he expresses it, ‘our belief of the continuance of the laws of nature.’

No hostess would attempt such a thing, the belief being general that some one of the guests would die within a year.