delusional? Peggy came up with that, and while it has some baggage with it about mental state, a person who is self-deluded might well make such a statement. Dictionary.com says that a delusion is a false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.

And would someone PLEASE tell me where my Roget's is? I have frisked all the usual suspects (hiding places in this case) and cannot find it!

TEd