bullshit oneself into something(What that taught me was the power of the mind. How you can BS yourself into imaging real things from things that are not real. 4uzhoj)
ensconce(The distance between them is seven kilometres. Or, measured in rocket terms, about 15 seconds: the time it takes for a Grad missile fired by Russian soldiers ensconced in the atomic station to slam into Nikopol’s chestnut tree-lined boulevards.theguardian.com4uzhoj)