"excessive belief" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize an overly strong faith or trust in someone or something. For example, "She had an excessive belief in her own abilities, which was ultimately her downfall."
Excessive belief in computers has done far more than damage markets.
"Mao had an excessive belief in class struggle, and that became an obstacle to the development of productive forces," Mr. He said.
(Who cares about "characters"?) The basic problem with so-called quality television — and with a certain kind of rote-naturalistic movie — is the excessive belief in characters, in an unmediated connection to the created people as a mode of aesthetic experience.
If President Obama departs from that tradition and takes away that bottom level — for fear of overreach, or in a quest for normalcy, or out of an excessive belief in the limits of his own power — then he will undermine the top level that he admires.
Jungk had published the bestseller "Die Zukunft hat schon begonnen: Amerikas Allmacht und Ohnmacht" ("Tomorrow is already here") in 1952, in which he accused US civilization of an excessive belief in technological progress, domesticating both nature and man [50 Jungk].
The truth is our politicians, and specifically our President, approach such questions with an astoundingly excessive belief in their knowledge and analytical capabilities.
Though accused by critics of excessive self-belief, he accepts that he will need training before resuming the expert witness role; it has been 10 years since he's done child protection work.
As the columnist C. L. Sulzberger observed in The New York Times after Denmark, the most libertine of the Scandinavian constellation, legalized pornography, "There is nothing in the least bit either unwholesome or immoral about the Danes who simply share with Benjamin Franklin, an American never renowned for excessive Puritanism, a belief that honesty is the best policy".
The presenting symptoms of these two patients, characterised by excessive anxiety and belief of shrinkage of genitalia, are similar to those found in koro patients.
The 40-item Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) measures dysfunctional attitudes, including excessive and rigid beliefs [ 43].
Personal alcohol consumption (that is, being either a non-drinker or non-excessive drinker) and belief in one's responsibility to promote prevention were somewhat (but non-significantly) associated with talking with patients about alcohol consumption.
