lead on

lead on  {v. phr.}
To encourage you to believe something untrue or mistaken.
Tom led us on to believe that he was a world traveler, but we found out that he had never been outside our state.
We were led on to think that Jeanne and Jim were engaged to be married.
Categories: encourage verb world
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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