"vague conceptions" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to thoughts or ideas that are hard to define or express. For example: "Sally had a few vague conceptions of what she wanted to do with her life, but they were too cross-cutting to make any real sense."
Illustratively, the 21 managers interviewed by Teperi and Leppänen's [6], "were found to have disjointed and vague conceptions of HF" ([6], pp. 438).
He added that "gender mainstreaming," a term right-wing Germans use to describe vague conceptions of gender equality, "is a psychological disease".
4. Counterfactual considerations should replace vague conceptions of "real" versus "spurious" association, which occasionally can still be read.
Herr Goebbel's apparently had some vague conception of this theory when he appealed for humorous contributions from "workers on the Western fortifications and in factories".
A still more general (and vague) conception of logical relation is that it is any relation in which a logician may have a peculiar professional interest.
What he did so well in his most recent collection was advance the old idea of the deconstructed garment, imparting to it more than a vague conception of distress.
Back then studies showed that simply sending out monthly bills left users with a vague conception of how they used power and what it cost.
The vague conception of gay history most young men grow up with is that being gay was "illegal" until somewhere in the middle of the 20th century, and then there's been a gradual swing in tolerance until the present day.
He was, he made clear, illegitimate - his name a mystery, his father probably called Geddes, the circumstances of his conception vague.
So, we may assume that although the inventor of the name does not know the status, his vague, "senses-bound" conception, from which he takes his word's signification, is directed at the status, as to that which he intends to signify.[34] However, Abelard does not work out this suggestion in any further detail.
It's a cumbersome staging with a muddled conception vaguely suggesting 1930's Fascist Italy, with the Don as a dissolute millionaire playboy who seems to have a thing for leather outfits when he attempts rape.
