Beliefs exist when we don't have a real answer. I may believe dark matter is black holes and you may think it's tachyonic bubbles, those are beliefs, but you thinking that x y or z is bad bc some guy in the sky says it is when it has non negative utilitarian implications; or that there was a huge exodus of jews from egypt to israel when 0 archaeological evidence supports that is another thing. Distrust of empiricism only escalates and we end with shit like al quaeda, aum shinryuko, alt right hate groups, antivaxxers, etc.