Belief
                                                                    
A human being is very complex. This complexity of his makes him more to yearn for something. Yearning for something, wanting something, feeling and believing is what makes a human, human.
Though, this doesn't mean that olny a human has such qualities. Any animal or a living being ought to have it. His own.
A person when attempts something, he has some expectations, or something in his mind that he thinks about it, that he believes to happen.
There is where the belief part comes. ( Not there actually)
Every human activity leads to something just after being done. Something in his mind. We may call it a thought, a prediction, perception or a whim. And the person believes it. ( Because he generated it) this is belief. In every walk of life, there is a belief.
Seeming short a word, it has a great value. Belief is often connected to fantasy. Of course both are different, but are nonetheless, connected (in some way or the other).
It is often assumed that atheists don’t believe. They don’t have beliefs .It’s off base actually. They do have beliefs but not in God. Why, they do believe that the sun is there, moon and stars are there.(and, that they don’t believe !)After all, an atheist is a person who believes that there is no God.
People believe in fantasy. Believe in themselves, believe that there is a sun, a moon.
There, belief is there. Be it in an Asthik or nastik(atheist).
As we may say belief is a feeling of being sure something /someone is true, exists but it is more than that . It has more positive a meaning.
Belief to me:
To me, belief has a more positive approach. Now, what's the negative one? Blind belief /superstitions. If you believe in something, it should have positive effects, results. Your belief can turn somebody else's in disbelief!
Now believing in tooth fairy, Easter bunny and Santa may not be considered as blind belief ( because positive). It has no detrimental effect .It’s good even. It gives hope to children and happiness. Someone may accuse it to take children away from thingness. But on the contrary, it gives them hope, happiness, something to believe, something to be fond of .And after all children are full of thoughts , visions , dreams and imaginations.
Believing in such things (positive) help us to cope up with life.
What we are , depends on our beliefs. As it is, we know that “we attract those things in the universe that we believe”. Thus, a belief has to have a positive approach.
What we believe can change our lives .Our universe .It can change us, nonetheless.
As Vincent Peale says:
"Life's battles don’t always go to the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks* he can".
                                                                                                              _Norman Vincent Peale
(*as mentioned earlier, thinks is associated with belief!)