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Belief is different from make-believe, but in spite of that there is a certain affinity between the two: Thinking that something is the case and just imagining it are similar in more than one way, and there may consequently be some interesting parallels between theory as expressed belief on the one hand and fiction, its make-believe counterpart, on the other. Now I want to exploit these parallels in a discussion of belief and its objects. Though the view I am going to develop and defend is clearly different from Meinong's, it can be said to have a certain Meinongian flavor; but this should not in itself count as a weighty argument against it.