It's a naive notion that a singer is by birth committed to a native-language literature rather than an acquired one.

It was an empty laugh at encountering a profoundly naive notion.

Appointees who bring naive notions about campaign platforms and Presidential goals to their jobs won't last long.

At first, this system may appear to be based on a rather naive notion of human nature and honesty, but there are controls to make it work.

The naive notion that the North was somehow a citadel for freedom and justice has wizened.

I can tell you that such naive notions, when applied to ominous matters like this, can easily get people killed.

This is a naive notion which could never be realised, because of inherent variation as in (2).

Darwin explicitly rejected the naive but widely held notion that a cause must be seen directly in order to qualify as a scientific explanation.

Could such a naive notion ever exist today?

"It's a very 1980's notion, a wonderful, naive notion, and it's a major reason I wanted to come here."