Was convinced

Usage examples of believed.

Drizzt had believed that Caer-Dineval and Caer-Konig, fearing that Easthaven would receive special consideration in future councils, would put on a blusterous show of loyalty, hoping themselves to gain favor in the eyes of Cassius.

He had always known that he was unlike his kin in many ways, though he had many tunes feared that he would prove to be more akin to them than he believed.

The surprise would be complete, he believed, and then with ironic amusement he noted that some of the ships already flew the red flags of the catch.

A few years before, the demon had felt a surge of power on the material plane that it believed would culminate a quest it had undertaken a millenium ago.

The full moon would only enhance the enchantment of that night, and Bruenor believed that he would capture a mighty spell indeed when he uttered the dweomer of power.

And with everything else they had found, Drizzt believed that could only mean one thing - treasure.

Cassius, though he truly believed the grim tidings, sat back in his chair and said nothing.

It was a dragon, after all, a terrible worm, and it believed, probably rightly so, that no single human could ever defeat it.

Entrenched and ready to fight and die, they waited as the last of the refugees ran past, terrified, screaming because they believed they had no chance of reaching the safety of the city before the goblins descended.

The demon still believed that it had guessed correctly, but it couldn't understand why the drow didn't comprehend the name.

He was traveling light, carrying only items he believed essential to the task.

Kessell desperately believed that if he still held the crystal shard, he could survive even this.

That same act had set a second, perhaps more significant, chain of events into motion, for it was that same apprentice, Akar Kessell, who had eventually come to possess the Crystal Shard, the mighty artifact that Dendybar now believed in Drizzt Do'Urden's hands.

Catti-brie sat in front of him, securely bound and gagged, though she fully believed, to her own disgust, that her own terror made the bonds unnecessary.

Sydney nodded, though she feared that Dendybar's request would prove more difficult than the mottled wizard believed, probably even beyond her skills altogether.