belief vs expectation

expectation vs belief

belief and expectation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
belief	Yes	No	No	No
expectation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, expectation is a hyponym of belief; that is, expectation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than belief:

belief: any cognitive content held as true
expectation: belief about (or mental picture of) the future

Other hyponyms of belief include article of faith, conviction, strong belief, faith, trust, doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought, philosophy, outlook, prospect, fetichism, fetishism, geneticism, meliorism, opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought, view, autotelism, originalism, pacificism, pacifism, faith, religion, religious belief, opinion, popular opinion, public opinion, vox populi, revolutionism, sacerdotalism, spiritualism, spiritual domain, spiritual world, unseen, suffragism, supernaturalism, superstition, superstitious notion, supremacism, theory, theosophism, thought, totemism, tribalism, values, vampirism, individualism, spiritual being, supernatural being.

belief (noun)	expectation (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	belief about (or mental picture of) the future
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
	the feeling that something is about to happen
	anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

Difference between belief and expectation

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