1. Connotation and characteristics of ideal

Connotation: Ideal is people's yearning and pursuit for the future society and their own development goals formed in practice, and it is a concentrated expression of people's world outlook, outlook on life and values in their struggle goals.

Category: According to different standards, it can be divided into long-term ideal and short-term ideal, personal ideal and social ideal, political ideal, moral ideal, career ideal and life ideal.

Features:

(1) beyond. The reason why ideal can become a great force to promote people to create a better life lies in that it not only originates from reality, but also transcends reality. Scientific ideal is a reflection of the consistency between people's subjective initiative and the objective trend of social development, and it is formed on the basis of correctly grasping the objective law of social and historical development.

(2) practicality. As a product of certain social practice, ideal is the crystallization of people's rational understanding of social practice activities under specific historical conditions. Only in the process of transforming the objective world and the subjective world can people take practice as a bridge and turn their ideals into reality. Ideal is produced and developed in practice, and can only be realized in practice.

(3) the times. Ideals, like any form of social consciousness, are the product of a certain era and bear the brand of a specific historical era. The epochal nature of the ideal is not only reflected in its restriction by the conditions of the times, but also in its development with the development of the times.

2. The connotation and characteristics of faith

Connotation: it is the psychological attitude and mental state that people firmly believe in a certain concept or thing and put it into practice on the basis of certain understanding. It is the organic unity of cognition, emotion and will, which provides a powerful spiritual power for people to unswervingly pursue their ideal goals.

Features:

(1) insist. Once a belief is formed, it will not change easily.

(2) Diversity. Specific manifestations: ① Different people will form different beliefs; The same person will form different types and levels of beliefs, thus forming his belief system. In the belief system, high-level beliefs determine low-level beliefs, and low-level beliefs obey high-level beliefs. Faith is the highest realm of faith and has the greatest control. Faith can be divided into blindness and science.

3. The relationship between ideals and beliefs

Ideals and beliefs are always interdependent. Ideal is the object of faith, and faith is the guarantee of ideal realization. Without ideal, the goal that people believe and pursue, faith can't produce persistent yearning and pursuit, and without the goal of faith, ideal can't move. In this sense, ideals and beliefs are inseparable. Because of this, people often call ideals and beliefs ideals and beliefs.