The phrase "a feeling that perhaps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing uncertainty or a tentative belief about a situation or emotion.
Example: "I have a feeling that perhaps we should reconsider our approach to the project."
Alternatives: "a sense that maybe" or "an impression that possibly".
It was fantastic, but there was a feeling that perhaps it wasn't going to last.
I love her work – the wit as well as the sadness of it – but there's a feeling that perhaps this isn't her year.
He continued: "There is a feeling that perhaps if he should be pardoned, then perhaps so should all of those men, whose names were ruined in their lifetime, but who still have families".
By R. O. Samuel and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, June 9 , 1951P. 23 A New Yorker has just returned from a family visit in Philadelphia with a feeling that perhaps they do things better down there.
The New Yorker, June 9, 1951 P. 23 A New Yorker has just returned from a family visit in Philadelphia with a feeling that perhaps they do things better down there.
In an interview conducted by Tillman for Bomb magazine, the artist Peter Dreher remarked: "But maybe, more important, is a feeling that perhaps I was born with, that everybody is born with: that one is somehow floating between thoughts, between literature, speaking, continents, races, and so on.
And then for the rest of the day I couldn't shake the feeling that things were amiss, a feeling that was perhaps exacerbated by helpful friends promising that if you have one roach you probably have thousands.
It leaves one feeling, momentarily at least, that the force is perhaps misunderstood — a feeling that also leaves one momentarily revulsed by one's own suddenly broadened perspectives.
Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it – contortions match your confusion".
March 20 , 20137.12pm GMT Ryan Avent of The Economist: Is there any feeling that perhaps the recovery has not been going fast enough?
In a memorably fine piece full of wisdom, while acknowledging that this remains a marvellous country for the Jew, he ended by saying that most Jews "have a niggling feeling that perhaps it might be a good idea to keep a suitcase packed … I don't have such a suitcase.
