It must be really intoxicating to be BELIEVED by so many people willing to lay down their lives at whatever peculiar imagining you set forward!
T.E. Lawrence spoke to this in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He wondered aloud if faith and belief by others didn't somehow legitimize itself in himself. Truly, he began acting as though he truly were extraordinary. Is this some universal principle of "Fake it till you make it?"
What is acting all about if not convincing the audience to suspend disbelief?
Maybe this is THE true truth.
FAITH is not belief so much as it is suspending DIS belief.
Acting the part is becoming the part.