Belief, a word of various application, but properly definable as that which lies at the heart of a man or a nation's convictions, or is the heart and soul of all their thoughts and actions, “the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain concerning his vital relations to this mysterious universe, and his duty and destiny there.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Belial * Belinda, Arabella Fermor