And again you resort to a contemporary dictionary for a modern definition of a word that comes from and which definition was derived from -- classical but more particularly from Koine Greek. ..
A belief held without the support of evidence is a belief held on faith. It's as simple as that. Your objections are just a smokescreen.
Thunder is just like Nighthawk, things can't be straightforward for them, they have to complicate-convolute something even as simple as faith.
FAITH
Greek mythology, Pistis /ˈpɪstɪs/ (Πίστις) was the personification of good faith, trust and reliability.
English Christian N.T. , ' Faith' is the word used to represent 'Pistis' from the Greek N.T. KJV, ESV and NASB bibles translate through a method called - Form Equivalence or “formal translation”. That means word for word for word, where it makes semantic sense and carries the source language meaning properly,
