[quote=alteredstate]"Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld."

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This is something that we might just have to dissagree with. Faith to me isn't something we desire or hope for. It is something that is a part of our life and is a part of us.

Faith is distinct from hope in that faith is typically general, rather than specific to an aspect, and in contrast to a "false hope" in a fantasy, the object of faith typically transcends what can be proven scientifically and sometimes exceeds what can be objectively defined. Faith can mean believing unconditionally. It can be acceptance of something that one has been told by one who is considered trustworthy. Faith, by its very nature, requires belief outside of known fact(I believe). Faith is formed through instinct, intuition, meditation, communing with nature, prayer, or perceived usefulness of a belief system.

Although faith has generated many roots in religion, it is not necessarily a religious word (like having faith that you have enough fuel to make it to the gas station , or that you have faith that you will get your next job) and is not exercised solely in God and god alone, but can apply to any situation where judgements are made irrespective of evidence.

Faith in something means to have experience with that something and then, due to this experience, judging and concluding so that you can predict an action of this something in a positive way. So for example a sister may leave the house for university, she returns in three years time to find her sister has not opened her diary which she explicitly asked her not too, even though her sister had every opportunity to open it without her knowledge or consent. The older sister would now have faith in the younger sister, judging by that experience she concludes that she can predict that anything else she trusts with here sister is safe. This is faith, but only then does faith and worship go hand in hand (like your confusion with what I said). Worship falls (sort of) along the same lines.

Warship is also something that people do that doesn't have to do with god. You can warship anything (I warship the 2007 corvette for example) for any reason. It's what is inside you. What you care about. Think about it.