What is the value of faith?

[Shin'Ar]

This is why I asked the question, because the definition is subjective and people will think they are talking about the same thing otherwise.

Faith is simply hope that what you believe will come to pass.

Perhaps this is so for you, but for me it's definitely not "a hope that what I believe will come to pass". For me, hope is nothing but another attachment. Also, "what will come to pass" exists in a necessarily make-believe future. Combine those things and you have yet more transient desire, because that desire is the only thing that can sustain hope.

For me, one description of faith would be something like a recognition of current participation in a universal, infinite connection and continuity. This is not one's particular desires or expectations as 'hope' might engender.

Zen,

Faith is choosing to believe in something that you cannot prove by scientific evidences. faith is hope that what you choose is actually true and real. I am unsure as to what you are arguing here.