The phrase "a modest view of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a humble or restrained perspective on a particular subject or issue.
Example: "She has a modest view of her accomplishments, often downplaying her significant contributions to the project."
Alternatives: "a humble perspective on" or "a restrained opinion of".
It would doubtless be better in future for America to embark on such adventures, if at all, with a clearer view of the costs, less faith in a military "cakewalk" and a more modest view of what force can achieve.
President Carter, who had been an engineering officer in Adm. Hyman G. Rickover's nuclear submarine program, had a decidedly modest view of what nuclear technology could accomplish.
The artists in between run from Albert Bierstadt with a relatively modest view of El Capitan, in Yosemite, to Grandma Moses, with one of her later, more greeting-card style scenes.
Ancient philosophers, who shared a more modest view of immediate experience's cognitive claims than the early moderns', accordingly made freer use of the biology of their day (regardless of whether they were dualists or materialists in their metaphysics) in their thinking about what kind of thing pleasure is.
A new and modest view of space, indeed, from the country that brought you the Apollo programme.
A more modest view recommends that philosophers make use of results from sciences studying cognition to resolve epistemological issues.
Did he really hold so radically modest a view of art's potential?
Suppose the view you'd like to take (think of it as a virtual camera) lies at the original center of perspective (the red ball), but has a modest field of view, say 90 degrees.
But Moore, the objection runs, supplemented this modest view with an extravagant metaphysics of non-natural properties inhabiting a supersensible realm and a mysterious faculty of intuition that acquaints us with them.
