During the times of false messiah Shabbetai Tzvi, and for several decades afterwards, many well established rabbanim [1] believed him to be Moshiach. Some even maintained this belief after his conversion to Islam. May one learn from the seforim of those who maintained such belief?
[1] see Bezalel Naor's Post Sabbatian Sabbatianism for a recent survey of the academic literature on this topic