The phrase "delusional vision" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a false belief or fantasy that someone has about the future, or their circumstances. For example, "He failed to recognize the real obstacles in his way, instead believing in a delusional vision of success."
It has the West's biggest economic hold on Russia and, historically, a (sometimes delusional) vision of the two countries' potential for a golden destiny together.
This fear and fascination with the superhuman black male body is a longstanding sightline – a "racial script", as the historian Natalia Molina calls it – in which a confused, delusional vision of the dangerous black male body is repeatedly invoked as a reason for some terrible, violent response.
We let hiring managers act out their fears and longings on a blank sheet of paper (or a page on a screen) and we call it a job spec, whereas it could more reasonably be called a Delusional Vision of the White Knight Who Will Save Me.
An attractive, charismatic lad, Richard assumes some prominence himself, scores with Francoise and Sal and experiments with feverishly delusional visions of empowerment.
Tyler's delusional visions of his victims consenting to be murdered may stem from West German serial killer Waldemar Szczepinski, who chose his victims based on their response to him ringing their doorbells those who answered he deemed to have given their permission to be killed and their houses burgled; those who did not were simply left alone.
A few years ago, the mordant Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra traveled to Jerusalem and found dozens of foreigners with delusional, even psychotic visions of themselves as messiahs.
Cynics will instinctively dismiss this vision as delusional.
That creativity lies just on the other side of madness is a commonplace, though popularly the madness with which art is associated is of the delusional variety, marked by visions and demons.
Along the way, they pivot away from the elements of the vision that are delusional and double down on the elements that show promise.
And when Noble gives but passing consideration to the thought that there may be no difference at all between his visions and his delusional mother's conversations with Khrushchev, we have to wonder if we've finally come across the dreaded Unreliable Narrator, that specter whose rumored presence has haunted American writing workshops for years.
Curtis believes that he is delusional, but he also believes in his visions.
