Picture someone looking at an old photograph and smiling a little. Nothing dramatic is happening: the feeling is warm, quiet and turned towards something they like. Fondly is that softness laid over an action — a look, a smile, a way of speaking or remembering. In one fixed frame the same softness is turned towards an idea instead of a person, and then it reads as pleasant but mistaken.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives fondly as Middle English fondly / fonnedli, that is fond + -ly. The same entry records a separate, dated adverb meaning foolishly, which is the shape that survives in fondly believe.
Wiktionary 記的是中古英語 fondly／fonnedli，也就是 fond 加 -ly。同一筆資料另外列了一個被標成 dated 的「傻傻地」用法，那正是 fondly believe 這個說法留下來的形狀。
Wiktionary entry for fondly, etymology_text: From Middle English fondly, fondely, fonnedli, equivalent to fond + -ly; plus its (dated) sense "foolishly".
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