I think it's important to remember that some people - whether you would call them delusional, crazy, or whatever else - legitimately believe that God exists because they have experienced something that makes them feel as if the only logical conclusion is that God is real. Whether that experience is "hearing him", "feeling his presence" or whatever else, you would be hard pressed to shake such individuals from their beliefs, no matter how grounded in reality they are, aside from the concept of God.
For such people, it's not a simple matter of "choosing to believe something because you want it to be true" so much as it is a case of one's very personal life experiences changing one's perspective permanently.
My uncle, a staunch and militant atheist who was once very aggressive in his pursuit to tear apart any shred of religion he came across, had such an experience about a decade ago while we were driving home from fishing. It was very bizarre, to say the least, to see this grown man break down and cry, and start crying out like a child and (it would appear) speaking to himself for no evident reason. He was cursing toward the sky and addressing an unseen "him". After that, he was never quite the same, though, and later he told me that he felt that God's presence was with him in that strange moment. I didn't know what to make of it, and still don't entirely, as he has remained an atheist but leans much less toward that militant ideology he once had.
I'm not saying people have to lend credence to similar things. I AM, however, pointing out that some have beliefs that, while illogical, are entirely rooted in what these people would perceive as being very tangible or possibly nearing irrefutable fact. We can question the validity or worth of the experiences these people have. Regardless, we all can only see through our own two eyes and live within our own minds, and it's very hard to shake what our senses have shown us to be real, whether it is or not.
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