"prevailing suspicion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a feeling or belief that is generally accepted as truth or reality. For example, "There was a prevailing suspicion that the election had been rigged."
Today, the prevailing suspicion is probably not that philosophers have a subversive influence, but that they don't "do" anything "useful".
There is still a prevailing suspicion of the army and the police, born of rampant drug use and theft by ill-disciplined recruits in the early years after the Taliban's ouster.
They had apparently been kept in the dark by the Pentagon.The prevailing suspicion among ordinary Turks and their leaders is that hawks in the American administration are out to punish them for not letting American troops use Turkey as a rear base in the war against Iraq.
As if Houston's breach wasn't bad enough, it gets worse when you look at what allegedly motivated it on St . Louis end — the prevailing suspicion by Cardinals staffers that its own intellectual property had been stolen.
But the President seems content to conform to the prevailing suspicion of government.
Given prevailing suspicions in Pakistan about "foreign agendas," the prize could keep her from becoming a politician, which is her ambition.
Some of the most serious harms include: a prevailing climate of suspicion and adversarial relationships; inequitable application of the law; stultification of originality; weakening of society's moral fiber and cohesion; repressive potential for a totalitarian government; blacklisting; ex-ante discrimination and guilt prediction and inversion of the onus of proof.
An early ascertained diagnosis of allergy, but not suspicions of allergy, predicts prevailing allergy in adolescence.
In the 10 months since the poll, the prevailing atmosphere has grown queasy with fear and suspicion.
Since the disease is clearly associated with prevailing environmental factors, but apparently not with polluted drinking water, suspicion falls on infectious and/or nutritional factors, including food type, quality, spoilage or chemical contamination.
In "Chocolat," it's Vianne's ability to read her customers' desires that causes the most suspicion, her insistence on indulging them in spite of the prevailing atmosphere of chastity and self-deprivation.
