Faith belongs to many things.  It can be religious in nature or political.  It can be in people living or dead.  It can be in hope or pessimism.  There are two pieces to this word of faith, belief and passive strength.  If your belief does not have the passive strength to be questioned and the passive strength to question, then you have a faultering belief at best and no real faith at worst.  For faith is grown through the simbiatic relationship of belief and passive strength.  Passive strength does not force or ridicule a person's belief, it's own person or a stranger. It nutures belief growing faith to be shared.  When we are open to sharing that faith we have grown and sharing the faith others have grown, the only outcome is a peace that only comes acceptance.