As Mao put it, in 1968, "Party unity" depended on the belief that "the individual is subordinate to the organization".
Its democratic spirit depends on the belief that miracles are accessible to all of us, almost any time.
To take an analogy, suppose a well-functioning society depends on the belief in God, whether or not God actually exists.
The low-carbon recovery absolutely depends on the belief of businesses we'll not get blown off course, and that means we have to play our part in reducing the deficit".
This analysis, while seemingly plausible, depends on the belief that it is the supply of credit that is essential to economic health: too much money ruins it, while too little destroys it.
The initiation of the shaman, depending on the belief system, may happen on a transcendent level or on a realistic level or sometimes on both, one after the other.
The credibility of this commercial music's claim to be noncommercial depends on the belief that rock is pushed up from the bottom rather than imposed from the top hence the importance in rock mythology of independent record companies, local hustlers, managers, and deejays, fanzines, and pirate radio broadcasters.
At bottom, this theory depends on the belief that even though voters say they don't want the government shut down to defund Obamacare, what they'll actually remember from this debate a year from now is that Republicans were really, really against the law and Democrats were really, really for it.
In this way, we model the optimization problem as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, which depends on the belief state of each user's best channel condition.
"Much of Old Money's aesthetic... depends on the belief that membership in the class is a gift beyond achievement," observes social critic Nelson Aldrich Jr., author of Old Money and a Rockefeller cousin.
