What you believe is what you believe to be true. It pertains to the state of affairs independent of yourself, the total state of affairs. There is no state of affairs that describes you, you are not an affair but the actual or potential observer of affairs, and your relation to the state of affairs is self-evident. The implications of your relation or position in regard to what you believe are also self-evident. There are no internal grounds for doubting what you believe to be true; it belongs to the outermost of the frames of understanding that you possess. If there were a true frame beyond what you believed then that would be your truth and you would be detached from what you believe, and so you would not really believe it, but only be entertaining it. You can only believe that one state of affairs is true, every other pertinent state of affairs, including or included in that one, is either hypothetical or merely entertained. These other frames of belief are what you believe at other times, or what others believe or what you believe others to believe - all alternatives are hypothetical or merely entertained, they are present only for the sake of argument. What you believe is not explicit, not without internal contradiction and changes superficially from hour to hour. All of your passion is a direct expression of what you believe, and so you cannot think your way out of it, even if it causes you pain, since the only effective thought you have is based upon what you unreflectively hold to be true. While your beliefs are inexplicit, their effects like shadows cast are less so, and these can be blurred and moderated by creating a cloud of fictions around your beliefs. You never believe these fictions, but you can argue with them and so pretend to not entirely disbelieve them.