Beliefs are standardly analysed as binary relations between subjects and propositions. Perry and Lewis have shown that the standard account has difficulties with handling self-locating beliefs. Robert Stalnaker has recently put forward a version of the standard account that is supposed to overcome this problem. Stalnaker’s motivation for defending the propositional account of belief is that it is accompanied by a simple and powerful propositional model of communication. I argue that Stalnaker’s proposal fails. The only way of upholding the propositional account of belief is by abandoning the propositional account of communication.