It had forced them to reconsider their own comforting beliefs and prejudices.

Yet a majority of students still seems to harbor the comforting belief, as one put it, that "it's definitely temporary.

This is a most comforting belief, yet, like most unthinking beliefs that offer comfort, there is little in the universe to support it.

The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place.

His cold reason, however, would not allow him to entertain that comforting belief.

But we are well advised to resist the comforting belief that the Bush-Cheney attack on civil liberties can't possibly get any worse.

Mr. Pagein's comforting belief in a system that looks out for the ordinary worker evaporated with the arrival of his layoff notice.

Not knowing if he would be traded, not sure where he fits into the Knicks' scheme, Ewing clung to the comforting and unshakable belief he has in himself.

Now that comforting belief has been shattered.

Is intimacy a form of knowledge, or is it just a comforting false belief?