in the belief that

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: believing that

She bought the rug in the belief that it was a real antique, not a fake.

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Those factors contributed to a sharp decline in the belief that political leaders are looking out for the interests of average citizens. —David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023

Governments across the globe increasingly outsourced core national security missions, such as those to do with space flight and satellite technology, to private companies, in the belief that businesses could do such work cheaper and better than could the state. —Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2023

Positive balancing centers on pursuing closer cooperation with one regional power, say Iran in the belief that this will incentivize others – for example, Arab Gulf countries – to follow suit. —Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023

Champagne producers typically blend lots of wine from many different plots, different grapes, and even different vintages in the belief that two plus two can sometimes equal five or even six. —Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 26 Aug. 2023

Yet committed realists continue to promulgate more and more definitions, in the belief that one of them will map perfectly onto some intrinsic and stable feature of nature. —Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023

Over time, policymakers converged on economic development as a key to ending terrorism, in the belief that poorer people are more susceptible to the appeals of violent groups or more likely to perpetrate violence themselves. —Graeme Blair, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2011

Each winter locals flood their land to let the saltwater nourish the soil and grass, in the belief that this causes their cows to produce fatter milk and meat. —Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023

These policies were undertaken in the belief that freeing markets increases productivity and competition, lowering prices, and that markets regulate themselves more efficiently than administrators can. —Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023