What you seem to be describing, calvaryoakville, is BLIND faith — like a mother who believes her son can do no wrong and still believes it in spite of evidence to the contrary.
The everyday faith that people exercise is a valid faith. This kind of faith might be defined as “fond expectation”.
You sit down in a chair, expecting it to hold you up. It doesn’t HAVE to hold you up. I once saw a man sit in a chair which promptly collapsed beneath him. But through his past experience with chairs, it was rational to expect this one to support him.
A pilot flies a newly designed airplane which has been untested. Because of his knowledge of the designers and their other excellent work in the past, he is willing pilot this plane in its maiden flight.
We can’t live a day of our lives without faith. We enter our car, turn the key and expect it to start. That’s faith. However, it might not start. But we still have faith that it will.
The faith I have just been describing, unlike blind faith, is valid faith. We have evidence for this kind of faith. Often that evidence is past experience.