The phrase "almost beloved" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is close to being loved or cherished, but not quite fully embraced.
Example: "Though he was almost beloved by the community, there were still some who held reservations about his past."
Alternatives: "nearly adored" or "close to cherished".
The winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, it is a keenly-contested debate as to whether the 33-year-old Swiss is the greatest tennis player of all time, but he is almost certainly the most beloved and his worldwide popularity has contributed to his vast earnings.
George Clooney is one of the most beloved men in Hollywood, striking up a conversation with almost anyone he encounters.
Almost every American "Nutcracker" includes Mother Ginger and makes her one of its most beloved guest-star turns.
In that unsettled season, as the so-called generation gap was rending the cultural landscape, Charles Schulz's work was almost uniquely beloved.
The picture has been acclaimed as a faithful depiction of the way a criminal case is tried, and, if I may add at this point, the trial justice was played by a lawyer who in his lifetime was almost as beloved here by his fellows at the bar as he was in his native Boston, Joseph N. Welch.
Others were simply curious what the fuss was about, and no doubt some tuned in out of habit to watch an almost universally beloved variety show that, on this Sunday, also included a semistaged excerpt from the Broadway hit "Oliver!," impressions by Frank Gorshin, Tessie O'Shea's somewhat rumpled British vaudeville and a few comedy and gymnastic acts.
Now SMG is deploying a thimbleful of her talent in Ringer and the rest of the Scooby gang (as her friends dubbed themselves, in one of the intertextual pop references that made the series almost as beloved by cultural critics as it was by viewers) has vanished virtually without trace.
The musical is almost universally beloved, and it is ripe for a film.
The books of the bestselling, award-winning "Ender's Game" science-fiction series, about child soldiers in space, are almost universally beloved.
That obsession resulted in the breakup of AT&T;, an almost universally beloved monopoly, and a sequel of deteriorating service, higher local charges and damage to Bell Labs, once one of our finest research facilities.
