The fixed idea ever working in the man's scheming brain had already transformed a vague belief into a certainty.
I had a vague belief that the Burman, forward, glanced back.
These fundamentalists are deeply committed to the return of Jesus - not just as a vague belief but as an imminent, concrete expectation.
I had a vague belief that he was suffering from a fit, or some form of convulsion.
Some vague beliefs he had instinctively held had just been magnified a hundredfold in his mind.
Their religion is a vague belief in forest spirits.
His status as a national hero won him election to the White House despite his vague political beliefs.
The uneducated may have entertained all sorts of vague beliefs, but that was true for the classical era as well.
Robbie and her sister, Laura, are bound by a vague but insistent belief that they were sexually abused in their early childhood.
To stumble on in a sort of vague, unformulated belief that your attack must crash through is to invite disaster.