The boat was so small that no one believed it could stay afloat for very long.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

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