I've always believed in hot chocolate for dessert so long as it's ridiculously rich and served in a demitasse cup with something playful, like a peppermint stick.

WSJ: Baked Hot Chocolate

They simply published whatever the prosecutor told them - so much so and for so long, that everyone believed it.

BBC

The Center for Security Policy has long believed that the B-2 represents for the future what the weapons that acquitted themselves so well in the Gulf constitute today: the difference between a decisive military capability necessary to meet long-term, global American security requirements and one that is wholly inadequate to that task.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | FOR A CREDIBLE DEFENSE POSTURE IN THE FUTURE, INVEST IN THE B-2 TODAY

As the replica remained hidden for so long under the overpaint, experts had believed it was painted long after Leonardo's death.

BBC: Mona Lisa copy reveals new detail

It had been going down so hard and for so long at that point that no one believed it would ever go up again.

FORBES: The Impossible Rally Turns Four

What he has forgotten, it turns out, explains everything that happens to him, and the explanations are so ridiculous that we feel like idiots for having believed in the movie as long as we did.

NEWYORKER: Control Yourself

Toyota has always believed that fuel cell technology is the long-term answer for zero emissions driving, so the company pulling back from a tepid market should not be viewed as a surprise.

FORBES: Retreat on EVs Not a Rout