To give somebody the benefit of the doubt
to believe something good about someone, rather than something bad, when you have the possibility of doing either After hearing his explanation, I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
What happens, when doubt becomes certainty? What happens when it becomes so apparent to everyone which side Hussein is really on? And there becomes no way to possibly deny it?
After all the makeup and obfuscation the media has covered him with, what happens when we discover who he really is?