"convenient belief" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when something is accepted as true even if it may not be verified. For example: "Many people hold a convenient belief that the company will always treat them fairly, even if they have no proof of it."
(Would you want to live in a pre-industrial village?) I also heard claims that rural poverty in the third world is mainly the fault of multinational corporations -- which is just plain wrong, but is a convenient belief if you want to think of globalization as an unmitigated evil.
He is very funny on the convenient belief that this is merely a response to unmediated popular demand: "home-ownership may be a deeply held cultural value in the United States, but cultural values flourish remarkably when promoted and subsidised by state policies".
That, by the way, is a mighty convenient belief for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which have been notoriously slow to offer much of that help.
This is a convenient belief for the DC political consultants who rake in hefty profits from these tactics - but simply because it is fashionable (and lucrative) to believe that such methods decide elections does not make it true.
My mother thought organized religion was one of the problems with the world; this extended to the Girl Scouts and the PTA (a somewhat convenient belief for a mother of four, since you can't ask someone to go against their beliefs).
More convenient beliefs are the incumbent.
The miraculous prose of Hume shows that both convenient beliefs are hopeless illusions.
"In some categories," said Mary Meeker, a seer of the Internet at Morgan Stanley, "it's already game over".These are convenient beliefs for anyone justifying some e-commerce share prices, but they are already mostly wrong.
The Bush people came very close, very close indeed, to changing forever the nature of our democratic system, freezing out forever the large majority of the American people, substituting convenient beliefs for hard truths.
You cannot control people, no matter how convenient a belief this may be.
The figure came out at more than €3,000 a year for each wolf.They do not address the question of whether farmers genuinely believe wolves are doing most of the damage, or merely find that belief convenient because of the compensation.
