The phrase "alternative to believing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different options or perspectives that do not involve belief or faith in something.
Example: "In a world filled with uncertainty, skepticism can serve as an alternative to believing in unproven theories."
Alternatives: "option besides believing" or "substitute for believing".
Sure that quote is obvious political glad-handing, but the alternative to cautiously believing Putin when he's saying reasonable things is surrendering to paranoia.
Dummer and Belcher were then instrumental in promoting Shute as an alternative to Burges, believing among other things that he was likely to be well received in New England because he was from a prominent Dissenting family.
Dummer and Belcher were then instrumental in promoting Samuel Shute as an alternative to Burges, believing among other things that he was likely to be well received in New England because he was from a prominent Dissenting family.
For this spot the Gauls, they said, were grievously alarmed, and had now no alternative but to believe that if, after the seizure of one hill by the Romans, they lost the other, they would find themselves to be almost invested, and cut off from all egress and from foraging.
When Mrs Merkel sees no alternative, people tend to believe her.She has been through politically rough patches and may encounter more.
She said there was "no alternative conclusion" than to believe Russia was "culpable" for the poisonings.
The prime minister, who visited Salisbury on Thursday, said there was "no alternative conclusion" than to believe Russia was "culpable" for the poisonings.
Therefore, against popular wisdom, the squad believes that a moderate crack habit, whereby the risk of harm is greatly reduced, is an achievable alternative to, what it believes, is the often futile attempts to break completely free from the drug.
While the idea when the strategy was launched was to make feedback a continuous process, and an alternative to tests, Harris believes it has led to intrusive monitoring.
They said at the time that they were seeking to create a Christian conservative alternative to what they believed was the liberalism of the Council on Foreign Relations.
