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Opaka instantly recognized him as the Emissary from the moment she met him. I think most of the religious figures recognized it as well.
Some Bajorans like Kai Winn doubted or resented that a non-Bajoran and non-believer was Emissary.
Normal people like Kira or others on the station believed it more or less but suppressed it since they had to work with him as an officer of the Federation first. There were a couple lines about it in the "sword of stars" episode guest starring Daniel Jackson's father in law