"I Believe" is a single by the American alternative rock band Blessid Union of Souls from their 1995 debut album, Home.

"I Believe" is the band's highest-charting single in the United States, reaching number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, and it became a top-20 hit in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

I just had to get up and play it.Eliot Sloan stated in an interview with The Celebrity Cafe that he wrote the song about his relationship with "Lisa", a girl he once dated.

A lot of people have been in relationships where their parents or their friends didn't want them seeing this other person for whatever reason, whether it was race, religion or background, or whatever.

In a review of Home by AllMusic, staff writer Tom Demalon said that the song "revealed the band to have more of a social conscience than similar acts such as Hootie & the Blowfish through the spiritually tinged lyrics.

"[5] In a review by Rolling Stone, staff writer Paul Evans called the song "all righteous, wide-eyed affirmation".

[6] Mark Frith from Smash Hits gave it a top score of five out of five, writing that 'I Believe' "is a very minimalistic ballad about how the world is turning into a horrible place and that love will find a way.

Sentimental gubbins of course, but this is so beautifully sung (imagine Brian Harvey at his very best and you're there) so incredibly charming and ludicrously positive.