Malala was an outspoken critic of the Taliban's opposition to girls' education, but she was only a schoolgirl and never believed that they would consider her a serious threat.
The public agrees, though their certainty has less to do with economics than misanthropy: the British do not like southern Europeans enough to offer them a subsidy union, and have never believed that other rich northerners, deep down, felt differently.
And many people never believed that Hezbollah rockets could reach Haifa, which is about 25 miles from the border.
And I have never believed that simple discounting can be an adequate tool for potentially catastrophic outcomes 50 or more years ahead.
This has been true even though India had not tested a nuclear device since 1974 and Pakistan is believed never to have done so.
But they viewed the putative cost of a full-scale housing bailout as much as a trillion dollars as prohibitive, and they believed that Congress would never finance such as measure.
Saddam and his henchmen believed that they would never have to answer for their crimes.
Writing and publishing, he believed, would never be the same.
Mr de Mul said they never experienced such behaviour from Afghans and he believed the Taleban Foreign Minister, Wakil Ahmed Mutawakkil, had taken the complaints seriously.
"He is as much symbol as substance, an icon for the youth and a sign of deliverance for an older generation that never believed a man with his skin color would ascend those steps, " said the International Herald Tribune.
"I never believed that the government could take away property from somebody and just arbitrarily give it to somebody else, " says Weiss.
When I lived in Cairo, I truly believed that the Egyptian people would never overcome their fear and take to the streets to protest.
What Cypriots did wrong was to vote for governments that allowed or encouraged their bankers to deal with questionable individuals in a manner disapproved of by German taxpayers, and to have banks that believed euro-zone promises that Greece would never default on its debts.
At an inquest in 1991, jurors heard that Kevin and 94 others were dead by 15:15, a verdict which Mrs Williams never believed.
The truth is that Mr Chirac never really believed that radical change was necessary to improve the French economy and to cut unemployment.
For decades, the journalistic mindset believed in the first, thought the second would kill the first and never cared a lick about the third.
And that tendency to eat late, though it has never been tested properly, is believed by many nutritionists to be a factor in putting on weight.
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But he never attacked the Murdoch empire or any other newspaper group by name and although he believed the media was out of control, he always resisted calls from within his own inner circle to take them on.
By keeping a narrow focus on what he believed was doable, even though naysayers told him it would never pass, and by asking abolitionists to tone down their demands, he demonstrated enlightened self-interest.
People believed that had America only heeded Wilson's call and joined the League, WWII never would have happened.
He believed that free medical care was a human right in a civilised country, and he never practised privately.
"We are not going to find them in my view -- just as I never believed the inspectors would -- by running around seeing if they can open a door and surprise somebody and find something, " Rumsfeld said, adding that the focus was on "finding the people" who could help in that effort.
"Maybe the players haven't believed they could go out and win a game away from home but they now have, you never know, we might just go on a mini-run, " the Burnley boss reflected.
But Rakesh, now believed to be in London, and Krirk-kiat, who hasn't been heard from, never showed.
Mingus never believed his music was "too difficult" for players of any age once they knew their instruments and were driven by his music to find themselves in it.
She had never believed anyone would ever want her because of the ugly patchwork of scars that banded across her back and pitted her arm, but Bui Huy Toan seemed to love her more because of them.
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