fondly believe

But I have always fondly believed that she loved me.

But they'll remain where they are, adding what is fondly believed to be cachet.

Like most boys, also, he had fondly believed his grand passion went unobserved by those around him.

A memento of what she fondly believes was her daughter's intimate friendship with Wally.

'Your lover isn't what you so fondly believe him to be.

Many people in the West fondly believe that if Russia is denied high technology its future political activities will somehow be constrained.

Harold Macmillan said he "fondly believed himself to be a good Tory".

We had achieved our objective, and fondly believed that the Germans were on their way back to Berlin.

Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves.

And all of them fondly believe, as I fondly believed, that they are beating the game.

'Then perhaps your demon-lover thinks less of you than you so fondly believe!

His sister sniffed with what she fondly believed was the air of a Van Astor dowager.

His irritation at the delay was probably a bit more evident than he fondly believed it was, Merlin thought with a grin.

The stunning beauty of my hand you're staring at through yon spyhole you so fondly believe I don't notice?

I was shocked; not (I fondly believed) by any moral difficulties, but by the calculation behind all this!

She succumbed to grief and madness mainly because he turned out to be meaner and more callous than she'd fondly believed.

THOSE who fondly believed British tennis could get no worse have again been proved wrong.

"I do, however, behold that band, the very one I gave to my first wife, who up until recently I fondly believed to be dead.

Tories (and murdoch) fondly believed that it would be just like 1979 and they'd soar in the polls.

Cadfael's proofs he had not witnessed, and would shrug off contemptuously as an old fool fondly believing a cunning young liar.

What was worse, Achmed fondly believed that every man worthy of being called a man abided by the same code of honor.

For a few minutes I was aware merely of an uncomfortable constriction which I fondly believed would ease as I grew accustomed to it.

Emerson's attorney looked at him over the spectacles which, he fondly believed, gave him an air of distinction in this age of ten-minute corrective eye surgery.

Most of "Johnny Stecchino" is set in Palermo, where Maria has invited Dante to pursue what he fondly believes to be their great romance.

Betty had learned that she must consent to what I decreed, even when my decrees were opposed to her likings, as she had once fondly believed they never would be.