n.
1.
Believing ( the active phase of the fact ), persuasion, conviction, confidence, trust, reliance, assurance, feeling of certainty. See faith .
2.
Being believed ( the passive phase ), credence, credit, acceptance, assent, currency.
3.
Creed ( the thing or things believed ), doctrine, tenet or tenets, dogma, opinion, view, article of faith, profession of faith.