belief vs sentiment

belief

noun
  • The quality or state of believing. 

  • Mental acceptance of a claim as true. 

  • Religious faith. 

  • One's religious or moral convictions. 

  • 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. 

sentiment

noun
  • A general thought, feeling, or sense. 

  • Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind. 

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