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Hi there. Many others like you have asked, what is the difference between faith and hope?

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Let's find out, shall we? You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org Faith and hope are distinct yet related.

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Now, these three remain. Faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Two of the three greatest gifts are faith and hope, listed separately. Faith and hope are related concepts as noted in Hebrews.

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Faith is confidence in what we hope for. Faith is a complete trust or confidence in something.

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Faith involves intellectual assent to a set of facts and trust in those facts.

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For example, we have faith in Jesus Christ. We completely trust Jesus for our eternal destiny.

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We give intellectual assent to the facts of his substitutionary death and bodily resurrection.

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And we then trust in his death and resurrection for our salvation. Biblical hope is built on faith.

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Hope is the earnest anticipation that comes with believing something good. Hope is a confident expectation that naturally stems from faith.

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Hope is a peaceful assurance that something that hasn't happened yet will indeed happen. Hope must involve something that is as yet unseen.

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Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? Jesus is our blessed hope.

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We can't see him yet, but we know he's coming and we anticipate that event with joy.

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Jesus said he is coming again. By faith, we trust Jesus' words and that leads us to hope that we will one day be with him forever.

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Jesus was resurrected from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

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That is the basis of our faith. Then we have Jesus' promise, Because I live, you also will live.

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That is the basis of our hope. The relationship between faith and hope can be illustrated in the joy a child feels when his father tells him they are going to an amusement park tomorrow.

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The child believes that he will go to the amusement park based on his father's word. That is faith.

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At the same time, that belief within the child kindles an irresistible joy. That is hope.

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The child's natural trust in his father's promise is the faith. The child's squeals of delight and jumping in place are the expressions of the hope.

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In conclusion, faith and hope are complementary. Faith is grounded in the reality of the past.

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Hope is looking to the reality of the future. Without faith, there is no hope and without hope, there is no true faith.

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Christians are people of faith and hope. We have the hope of eternal life, which

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God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time. All right, that answers your question.

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