This is why so many men secretly fear their wives.
But I secretly feared each healthy day might be my last.
Mental illness ran in his family and it was something he secretly feared.
This was the testing time he had both longed for and secretly feared.
"We want to be French, but we secretly fear they are superior to us."
Do you secretly fear abandonment by a loved one?
Perhaps I'd secretly feared that speaking my feelings aloud would somehow diminish them.
It was what they had all secretly feared.
Many here secretly fear that if basic political questions like this cannot be resolved quickly, tensions rising from growing economic desperation could become explosive.
Undergraduates secretly feared that they weren't good enough compared to the giants of yore.