Belief has a complicated relationship with thinking—do you believe/think Socrates himself believed in Apollo literally or did he do so for the dual reasons of (1) avoiding being cancelled by Athenian normative values and (2) because the gods provided him as a public figure a useful trope for the rhetorical subject position of humility (without which there can be no objectivity since there would be no subject-object relations)? Socrates must have understood that most men need the menace of judgement to be good and if men are not good (social contract as minimum for social order) they or their neighbors would never live long enough to get to know themselves and consider what it might mean to be good.