Faith

This is something that I've been grappling with. Faith is the twin of Trust. How do we trust in the unknown? We are told to have faith in whatever happens but what exactly is faith? It cannot be seen or heard, smelled or touched. Humans find it easier to trust in something that's visible. If we were to have faith in what cannot be seen, of which little is known, we risk having faith in nothing. Because nothing can't be seen and there's nothing to know about nothing. So to protect ourselves we put our faith in the tangible and what can be seen.

I don't know what can inspire faith. In "The Last Vampire" by Christopher Pike, Alisa was told by Kalika that "Words cannot inspire faith. Only love can destroy the maya." If that is true, what am I to have love in then? And isn't love a consequence of faith? So ultimately, how does one believe in the unbelivable?