They believed their work to be valuable, but were not especially altruistic.
I had believed my work on this case was being done pro bono.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition believed Le Page's work important enough to include among the guides which they took on their long journey.
In 1940, Fitzgerald suffered a third and final heart attack, and died believing his work forgotten.
Her work has many critics who believe her work to resemble that of Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Recent studies of her work in Sheffield Hallam University believe her work to be of greater value.
In fact, Childs disliked the term, believing his work to represent an entirely new departure, replacing the entire historical-critical method.
And to be a good soldier you have to live it, to believe your work has worth and purpose, and you have to like doing it.
Some historians believe her work to be bias because of her feelings towards the Crusaders, and how highly she regards her father.
Sadly, I believe his work deteriorated as soon as his problems with Mia Farrow became public knowledge.