“法律”在现代法治国家被确立为“至上”的地位,为了维持这种地位的永恒,注定它不能仅仅被作为一种“治理工具”来重视,而应形成一种民众的法律信仰。本文从西方法律信仰的形成过程入手,论证了法律作为信仰的历史合理性;并通过研究法律信仰的对象来探讨“法律应如何被信仰?” In the modern rule of law, the “law” has been established as the “supreme” status. In order to maintain the eternity of this status, it is doomed not to be valued merely as a “governing instrument” but rather as a People’s legal beliefs. This article starts with the forming process of western legal belief, and demonstrates the historical rationality of law as belief. By studying the object of legal belief, this article explores how law should be believed?