diff --git a/cassandra/policies.py b/cassandra/policies.py
index 25565a2c..466a4cdc 100644
--- a/cassandra/policies.py
+++ b/cassandra/policies.py
@@ -485,6 +485,10 @@ class HostFilterPolicy(LoadBalancingPolicy):
             load_balancing_policy=blacklist_filter_policy,
         )
 
+    See the note in the :meth:`.make_query_plan` documentation for a caveat on
+    how wrapping ordering polices (e.g. :class:`.RoundRobinPolicy`) may break
+    desirable properties of the wrapped policy.
+
     Please note that whitelist and blacklist policies are not recommended for
     general, day-to-day use. You probably want something like
     :class:`.DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy`, which prefers a local DC but has
@@ -546,10 +550,15 @@ class HostFilterPolicy(LoadBalancingPolicy):
     def make_query_plan(self, working_keyspace=None, query=None):
         """
         Defers to the child policy's
-        :meth:`.LoadBalancingPolicy.make_query_plan`. Since host changes (up,
-        down, addition, and removal) have not been propagated to the child
-        policy, the child policy will only ever return policies for which
-        :meth:`.predicate(host)` was truthy when that change occurred.
+        :meth:`.LoadBalancingPolicy.make_query_plan` and filters the results.
+
+        Note that this filtering may break desirable properties of the wrapped
+        policy in some cases. For instance, imagine if you configure this
+        policy to filter out ``host2``, and to wrap a round-robin policy that
+        rotates through three hosts in the order ``host1, host2, host3``,
+        ``host2, host3, host1``, ``host3, host1, host2``, repeating. This
+        policy will yield ``host1, host3``, ``host3, host1``, ``host3, host1``,
+        disproportionately favoring ``host3``.
         """
         child_qp = self._child_policy.make_query_plan(
             working_keyspace=working_keyspace, query=query
diff --git a/docs/api/cassandra/policies.rst b/docs/api/cassandra/policies.rst
index 0cb16ed1..b662755c 100644
--- a/docs/api/cassandra/policies.rst
+++ b/docs/api/cassandra/policies.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Load Balancing
 
 .. autoclass:: HostFilterPolicy
 
-   # we document these methods manually so we can specify a param to predicate
+   .. we document these methods manually so we can specify a param to predicate
 
    .. automethod:: predicate(host)
    .. automethod:: distance