Faith means believing that something "is" although you can't see it, but you are sure of a positive outcome. Hope, on the other hand, is the strong desire for something to happen, whose result, nevertheless, is not at all certain. Is there a connection between faith and hope? There may be, and it may even be stronger than you expect. When you have faith in something, the starting point is your wish for a specific thing to exist. Let's say that you believe in God, in love, in friendship etc. The basis of such feeling is your strong desire for God, love or friendship to be a reality. Then you build on that, and reinforce it with your (possibly unconscious) willpower, till the wish becomes a certitude. Hope, therefore, is only the first rung of the ladder. If you aren't willing or - more likely - if you aren't able to keep on 'working' on it, you won't climb higher on the spiritual level.
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