We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Everyone fears rejection.
One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.
By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
