Like you, you mean?.. I assume a human person must have typed on a keyboard to make this post, but I have never seen you and will never meet you, all I have is this anonymous transaction with faint whiffs of energy behind it, what’s the different other than assumptions?.. so I do not “believe in you”, but I don’t need to… I am merely responding to an energy manifest in front of me. I do the same with all of life, and sometimes I do the manifesting first.
No more than I believe my keyboard works. It does or it doesn’t, it’s not actually mysterious at all… A ritual is a tool for you to direct your own energy, and you can feel that, or you can’t. If you can’t feel it, you have no feedback to know that it’s working, it might, but it might not. I can feel it, so it’s not a matter of belief. This is why I always recommend people start with learning how to feel and work their own energy first, not second, when starting in magick.
Again, you need to have build your senses so you’re not working in the dark all the time… you can watch the energy flows happen and then it doesn’t matter about “belief”. You could also develop the clair senses to get that info through the subconscious that way, but you want to get feedback not just hope it worked. You’ll always doubt when you’re blind to what you actually did that caused the manifestations. You’ll doubt anyway when it’s still subtle, but that’s why we keep grimoires to stop second guessing ourselves and if you decide it was just a joyful coincidence, that’s ok too. Keep going, after a few coincidences in a row it stops being a bother.
We have a ton of those for you to browse through:
No I didn’t make any changes and I already live how I want to live. Most of my rituals were done expressly so that I didn’t have to. E.g. doing well at work or working on my ascension: I got the job, I got an unexpected promotion, I found the perfect materials for my style to practice with etc.
I have a question and the answers come fast, albeit with more questions as answers are wont to do, and that’s what I want.
No, I’d moderate it if it was, the forum isn’t here to pander to people who are basically trolling with no intention of having an open minded discussion. Being a skeptic has a kind of religious enegy that makes people soapbox, and we don’t allow preaching here. It’s written into the rules that that’s a no no.
I don’t see you doing that so you’re good 
Yes, there’s a whole school of thought that says the entities are only aspects of your own mind. It doesn’t matter which one you do with in the end, if the results are the same. I have a different view but I’m not them and it’s not up to me to tell someone else how to think, you have to do what works for you.