Faith is the product of thought.
Faith is the product of the soul, not religion or political party. Religion or political parties only play a catalytic role. Without religion and political parties, people can have faith.
Belief is an individual's conscious behavior, and it is difficult for the collective belief to last long. The belief established by collective belief will disappear with the disintegration of a certain religion, political party and organization. The content of faith is varied and strange. Belief in the unity of man and nature, God, Buddhism and science, and obsession and worship of rights, status, money, reputation and beauty. It is also a belief. "Eating, drinking and whoring for a day" and "muddling along" are also beliefs.
Philosophical definition
Faith is where you trust.
But unlike trust, faith is also your value.
Faith is some long-term and basic beliefs that people hold about life that must be defended. No matter how advanced technology is, the limitations of human beings will not change. Although we know much more than people before 2000, with the increase of knowledge, we have made progress in understanding some issues, but we will also have some new puzzles. On some issues, such as the fear of death, we have made little progress. Compared with their ancestors, the gap between human desire and unknown, finite and infinite may not be as narrow as they thought. In this gap, there are both hope and fear, which leaves a place for faith. Human beings always need faith, and we must rely on faith to try our best to narrow the finite and infinite distance.
So faith is different from what most people say. Faith answers the deepest daily questions in life. The object of belief is also the object of worship. Everything in the field of human experience is limited and its value is limited. These things with limited value can hardly be regarded as objects of faith. Faith transcends all limitations, and only by transcending the infinity of reality can it truly become the hope to make up for human limitations. The truth of God is a transcendental truth that human beings have discovered, and the belief in God is incomparable to any empirical proposition.