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I've gathered that と思う means to think about but isn't it a little redundant to
add the みたい？

> 彼らに聞いてみたいと思います。

The みたい adds the sense of looking like or seeming but so does 思う so I don't
quite understand the combination! Any thoughts?
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Meaning of「〜てみたいと思います」
You've gotten the みたい part wrong. What you are seeing is a subsidiary verb
(～て)みる, which means "to try doing something (and see what happens)". See:
[What is the difference between "verb＋て＋みる" and
"verb＋(よ)う+とする"?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/19038/5010) みたい meaning
"to seem / look like" never follows a te-form.

  * 聞く "to ask"
  * 聞いてみる "to try asking"
  * 聞いてみたい "to want to try asking"

> 彼らに聞いてみたいと思います。  
>  (very literally) I think I want to try asking them.  
>  I think I'm going to ask them (and see if that can solve our problem).

You may be still wondering if ～たい and と思う are similar and thus redundant, but
it's a common way to say one's plan or wish. See: [〜たいと思う -- What does this
mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/49163/5010) and [Different ways to
show intention to do
something](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5005/5010)
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