A persistent belief is that "the King" did not die in 1977.
There have been persistent but erroneous beliefs about Matthau's birth name.
This fuels a persistent belief that women do not belong at the Academy.
I worry that our persistent American-centered beliefs "are sending the totally wrong signals."
In 1536, a strong and persistent belief in witchcraft led to the city's first witch-hunt.
Or the persistent belief in unworkable economic theories like socialism.
It survives in the persistent belief that food can have aphrodisiac properties.
A persistent or recurrent belief that one is British.
Evidence of persistent irrational beliefs or negativistic thinking regarding the diagnosis.
There is a persistent belief in some quarters that Africanus was actually an African.