What's the difference between deleting a story and hiding a story from my Facebook timeline?

Deleting stories
You can delete anything you post on Facebook. Deleting a story will remove the story from your timeline and any of your friends’ timelines.

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Hiding stories
Hiding a story will remove it from your timeline. However, that story might still appear other places on Facebook, like the timelines of any of your friends tagged in the story.