fond belief

It is my fond belief that all of them are united in their desire for peace and prosperity.

It is, or could be, a source of energy and enlightenment, inspiration and fond belief.

"Not many realize what it's like out here," the Colonel rumbled on in the fond belief that Fleming was listening.

He was banking on the fond belief that nobody could possibly be as mean as he was.

For nothing ever so inspires human daring, as the fond belief that it is the agent of a Diviner Wisdom.

Our fond belief in immutable masterpieces might have given Bellini and his opera-writing colleagues considerable puzzlement.

These are the dresses and, most particularly, the slacks that I used to buy in the fond belief that I was about to lose weight.

There were several people who'd been personally skewered or whose fondest beliefs had been shredded by MacAllister.

In passing, I wish to remark, at this late date, that it is my fond belief that I accelerated the socialist development in the United States by at least five minutes.

Many a time ere now The sons have for the sire's transgression wail'd; Nor let him trust the fond belief, that heav'n Will truck its armour for his lilied shield.

For another, she is such a friendly soul that she keeps forming a relationship with the camera crew, rather puncturing the producer's fond belief that the process of filming takes place with invisible machinery.

Its issues bore a sonnet by William Wordsworth as epigraph, beginning "They called thee 'merry England' in old time" and characterizing Merry England "a responsive chime to the heart's fond belief":

And would she still be hugging the fond belief that those aristos "up there" had learned something from the terrible events which had precipitated their king from his throne and left him and their kindred to the guillotine?

Roberts beamed at her happily, jiggled the fee in his glass as he looked down at Claudia from his great height and murmured sweetly, "It has long been my fond belief that it's up to a competent agent to get client parts."

Garvin thought of telling Jasith the deep, thorough knowledge he'd gained of the Confederation capital's recreational tastes in three weeks in the recruit reception depot mainly spent cleaning 'freshers, decided there wasn't any point in spoiling the woman's fondest beliefs.