belief vs guess

belief

noun
  • Mental acceptance of a claim as true. 

  • Religious faith. 

  • One's religious or moral convictions. 

  • The quality or state of believing. 

  • Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. 

  • Something believed. 

guess

noun
  • A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. 

verb
  • to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). 

  • To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. 

  • To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. 

  • To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess". 

How often have the words belief and guess occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )