allude

viitata, vihjata puhekieltä To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
1597, w:Richard Hooker|Richard Hooker, http://books.google.com/books?id=ZsNCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA523 Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.