i am able to relate to anandb ji's explanation. vijisesh ji's take is also quite interesting.
if dr S can come up with any potential 'conflicting' situation as the moderator has requested, i am sure it can lead to interesting observations.
superficially the words seem perfectly fungible but i think intrinsically they are not.
the easiest i guess is to try explain trust. trust comes from past performance. that is to say that the provenance of trust is thru 'establishment and verification' and not intuitive.
intuitively no 2 persons can be rated on trust ; trust is always preceded by verify, i guess and so goes the famous phrase, trust but verify.
in this context, anandb ji is right on the money when he says that we dont trust in god.
now comes faith.
i am tempted to think that faith is a combination of legacy handover plus cognitive understanding. most of us were born to believers and so we were told to have faith in god. but as our cognitive abilities developed (though there can be exceptions such as yours truly), we started to rationalize what has been handed over to us.
so in this process of cognition, we shear off the superfluous aspects of the faith and stick only to the basic kernel of faith. this possibly explains why some of us can be non-ritualistic but deeply religious. because our cognition has taught us that the paraphernalia of rituals are not essentially a pre-requisite to realization.
so cognitive appreciation of legacy is perhaps my definition of faith.
belief is difficult. belief is something which we dont want to put through a cognitive test. belief is something that is deeply personal, unverifiable, which tugs the strings of our heart and when breached can cause psychological impairment.
belief again can be handed over to us but somewhere in the process of handover enmeshed into our psyche that we feel part of it. a crude example could be that none of us required a dna test to confirm our parentage. it is given and so we believe we are who we are.
have i added something worthwhile ?
i 'believe' so, but dr S is free to dismiss my belief.