"delude us" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to deceive or mislead someone into believing something that is not true. Example: The politician's promises of a better future deluded us into voting for him, but he ended up not keeping any of his promises.
We have let the Press Complaints Commission delude us into thinking that it is genuinely independent and has a bite that everybody is frightened of.
The danger, if there is one, is that the easy, on-demand access to reams of information from the internet may delude us into mistaking the data we download for genuine wisdom worth acting upon.
Our own brains can delude us.
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety.
Just as they have the power to delude us or lull us into fantasy, they also have the amazing capacity to offer truth in times of official misinformation.
The bully culture in our politics survives because we have chosen to allow their idolatrous thrones of shimmering glass to delude us.
To what degree has Tony deluded us — and himself — with his simplistic account of the love triangle among himself, Veronica and Adrian?
Pearce will not be whipping the British nation into one of those frenzies which deluded us into imagining that Italy would be getting a hiding, less than a month ago.
"Today we can see clearly that Olmert and Livni deluded us and maybe themselves when, after the second Lebanon war two years ago, they said that Hezbollah had become much weaker," he said.
The Tooth Fairy did it by printing money, by bogus accounting and by deluding us into thinking that by borrowing from China or Germany, or against our rising home values, or by creating exotic financial instruments to trade with each other, we were actually creating wealth.
They have deluded us into the idea that excellence is reserved for a special breed touched by a genetic miracle that passed the rest of us by.
