Originally Posted by dodgefan
1. Confidence or trust in a person or thing:
Faith in another's ability.

2. Belief that is not based on proof:
He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.

3. Belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion:
the firm faith of the Pilgrims.

4. Belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.:
to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.

5. A system of religious belief:
the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.

6. The obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.:
Failure to appear would be breaking faith.


https://www.dictionary.com/browse/faith


Dictionaries tend to reflect common usage, where words are used as blanket terms or a wide range of references. Trust may be built or destroyed on direct experience with someone or something, which is evidence based. On the other hand, someone may be convinced that Brahman is the creator of the universe, so we are clearly not talking about the same thing regardless of whether you use the same word, faith, in both examples. If you do, you are either being sloppy or equivocating.

Last edited by DBT; 07/31/19.