That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.