according to your own definitions what are the differences between hope and faith?

Answer 1

Without hope you have no faith, but without faith you have no hope.

I see hope as something that means two different things, One being hope for things to happen. As a child I toke hope as wanting something, my siblings and I where always hoping for this toy or that one. But we never had faith that it would happen. Our mother was unstable and thought less about her children and more about going out and having a good time. So we had hope but no faith that it would happen.

As an adult having felt the loss of my husband to cancer, Carcinoma of Unknown Primary, I have hope that someday day their will be a cure for cancer so no one has to feel the pain of losing a loved one to cancer. But my hope now has a faith in science and God that it will be accomplished.

As a Child I was hopeless and as an adult I am now hope-full.

Answer 2

It will never cease to mystify me that people seem to think they can go around making up their own definitions for words. It is the fact that we have universally accepted definitions that enables us to communicate with each other. Otherwise nobody would ever understand what anyone else was saying.

Hope is a combination between a desire to have something happen and a belief that it may actually happen. In some contexts hope is considered a virtue, because to be incapable of hoping consitutes pessimism (not believing that what you want to happen ever actually can happen).

Faith is an attitude toward a belief in which the believer does not feel the need to qualify the belief with evidence. If one has faith, they believe something without having any material evidence, and without qualifying their belief through a chain of reasoning that suggests the belief is true.

Answer 3

To me , Faith is a confidence in a person or statement or thing as trustworthy, a belief without need of proof. Hope is a desire with an expectation of fulfillment. Most things I have put my faith in have stood the test of time. I'm very selective. Some hopes have not materialized because they were not realistic. That is my definition. Hope it helps.

Answer 4

Faith is being sure of what you hope for and believing what you do not see.

Hope is a feeling that what you want will turn out for the best

Answer 5

To hope for something is to wish it would happen, with little reason to believe it might.
To have faith that something will happen, is to believe with all your heart that it is going to happen. Faith is based on a belief and usually has some basis for that belief. I hope this chair will hold me if I sit in it, means it may not. To have faith that it will, is to sit down without further consideration.

Answer 6

Hope is the desire of acheivement. Faith is the expectation of the acheivement without question. Faith is the belief in things unseen and the surrender of ones own action or reaction to any situation, to a higher power to make it so.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 7

Hope is the desire for good things to happen. You wish for a positive but you know that it might not happen. Faith is blind, unquestioning belief in something that is totally unsupported by any kind of rational fact. Self delusion, maybe?

Answer 8

For me, it's the difference between having a chance of getting what I hope for vs. whatever happens is in the hands of a higher power.

Answer 9

Hope is more associated with desire. I could have hope that a killer of a relative will be found.
Faith is having the confidence in your heart that your desires will be fulfilled. Neither hope nor faith are defined or associated with time.

Answer 10

I like Vianna's answer: "hope is something you WANT to happen.
Faith is something that is SUPPOSED to happen whether you like it or not."

In accordance with that, for me, hope is something like,"I hope I get to have another day with my lovely wife; time to enjoy more of the pleasures we share."

Faith, for me, is like,"I have faith that she'll smile at me, faith that her culinary skills will result in more pleasurable dishes, faith that she'll continue to manage the financial books accurately." Faith, for me, is the continuance of proven, past experience.