Sean Dyche felt Burnley deserved the luck that helped them beat Southampton 1-0 on Saturday to claim a third win in six Premier League games.
Ashley Barnes' deflected shot in the 73rd minute, after Tom Heaton had earlier saved Dusan Tadic's penalty, earned the Clarets a narrow victory over the Saints.
It was enough to lift Burnley out of the relegation zone, at least until QPR play Everton on Monday.
"You need a scratch of luck and we got that with the goal," Dyche said. "It can't be said for the penalty save because I think it's an absolutely outstanding save rather than a miss, and their lad [Victor Wanyama] put one over later in the game.
"They are the margins and we've been on the wrong side of those margins at times. Overall I thought the luck that went in our favour was well-deserved.
"There's a belief about what we do and I've made it clear -- we didn't come into this division thinking we're going to have 500 passes a game and rip teams to shreds.
"We knew we'd have to find different ways of winning. We did that last year. We've taken that mentality into this year.
"I thought some of the football in the first half was very good, with pockets of it in the second half. That's our fifth clean sheet in 15 games, which is a marker in itself at this level."
Barnes also scored the winner against Hull and appears to have established himself as the regular strike partner for leading scorer Danny Ings.
Dyche signed the 25-year-old from Brighton in January, and he said: "He keeps going, he's an awkward customer.
"He can be clean at times, sometimes not so clean at others, but he's very awkward at this level. He's a newcomer, people won't know much about him and he sticks at it.
"His stats are through the roof and he'll give you everything."