The phrase "and difficult to believe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that seems implausible or hard to accept as true.
Example: "The story he told was fascinating, but it was also strange and difficult to believe."
Alternatives: "and hard to accept" or "and hard to swallow".
This is something extraordinary, and difficult to believe until seen.
Apparently it's kind of ridiculous and difficult to believe even when it's happening in front of you?
That's a startling admission and difficult to believe.
His family said many of the claims were "bizarre and difficult to believe".
The family said: "We find many of the claims bizarre and difficult to believe, an independent inquiry would determine their truth or otherwise".
When told that the District Collector in Ramanadapuram in Tamilnadu has confirmed the story, Dr.Kohona said that this was incredible and difficult to believe.
Although Dr. Gott does not accept many of Dr. Caves's conclusions, the new calculation does, at least, begin to reveal both the practical limitations and the strengths of a theory that can sometimes appear incomprehensibly general and hence difficult to believe.
Mr Yeltsin would give his endorsement later, when he was no longer quite so sensitive about being seen as a lame duck himself.When in doubt, be decisiveIn fact, as the dust settled, it grew more and more difficult to believe that Mr Yeltsin was doing Mr Chernomyrdin any sort of favour.
I came home on Monday night having learned a great deal about life and death and finding it difficult to believe in anything at all.
I found the books ambitious, informative and hugely entertaining, and it's difficult to believe that these are all first books.
Moreover, some other diseases show similar types of increase with age (e.g., cerebral haemorrhage, coronary thrombosis and gastric ulcer) and it is difficult to believe that they should all be dependent on the same type of mechanism.
