Faith is confidence or trust in a particular religious belief system.

  • Faith in Buddhism
  • Faith in Christianity
  • Jewish principles of faith

Faith may also refer to:

  • Bad faith, a legal concept in which a malicious motive on the part of a party in a lawsuit undermines their case
  • Bad faith (existentialism), mauvaise foi, a philosophical concept wherein one denies one's total freedom, instead choosing to behave as an inert object
  • Fáith, the Irish for "prophet, seer"
  • Good faith, bona fides, the mental and moral state of honesty
  • Religion, any specific system of belief ("one's faith")
  • Religious belief, the belief in the reality of the mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of a religion
  • The first of the theological virtues in Catholic theology
  • Trust (social science) in a person or entity
  • Uberrima fides (Utmost good faith), the legal doctrine of certain contractual obligations

As a proper name

Places in the United States

  • Faith, Minnesota
  • Faith, Missouri
  • Faith, North Carolina
  • Faith, South Dakota

Music

Bands

  • Faith (band), a doom metal group

Albums

  • Faith (The Cure album), 1981
  • Faith (Dynamic Praise album), 2001
  • Faith (Eyes of Eden album), 2007
  • Faith (Faith Evans album), 1995
  • Faith (Faith Hill album), 1998
  • Faith (George Michael album), 1987
  • Faith (H<sub>2</sub>O album), 1984
  • Faith (Hyde album), 2006
  • Faith (Pop Smoke album), 2021
  • Faith (Rise and Fall album), 2012
  • Faith: A Holiday Album, 1999 album by Kenny G
  • Faith: A Hymns Collection, a 2006 album by Avalon

Songs

  • "Faith" (Celine Dion song), 2003
  • "Faith" (Galantis and Dolly Parton song), 2019
  • "Faith" (George Michael song), 1987
  • "Faith" (Ghost song), 2018
  • "Faith" (Lords of the Underground song), 1995
  • "Faith" (Rina Aiuchi song), 2001
  • "Faith" (Stevie Wonder song), 2016
  • "Faith" (The Weeknd song), 2020
  • "Faith", a song by Jordin Sparks from Battlefield
  • "Faith", a song by Luscious Jackson from Fever In Fever Out
  • "Faith", a song by Calvin Harris from Motion
  • "Faith", a song by Nana Mizuki from Hybrid Universe
  • "Faith (In the Power of Love)" by Rozalla, 1991

Name

Given name

  • Faith (given name), an English feminine given name

Surname

  • Adam Faith (1940–2003), English pop singer
  • Bob Faith (born 1963/1964), American businessman, founder, chairman and CEO of Greystar Real Estate Partners
  • Horace Faith (?–2015), Jamaican reggae singer
  • Paloma Faith (born 1981), English singer and actress
  • Percy Faith (1908–1976), Canadian bandleader and composer
  • Saint Faith, or Saint Foi, third-century AD French saint

Middle name

  • Cora Faith Walker, American lawyer and politician

Nickname

  • Corey Taylor (born 1973), American musician nicknamed "Faith"

Characters

  • Faith (Ninjago), a character in Ninjago
  • Faith Connors, the protagonist in the action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge
  • Faith Herbert, a superhero in the Valiant comics universe
  • Faith Lehane, a fictional character for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, portrayed by Eliza Dushku
  • Faith Newman, a character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Faith Seed, a character in the video game Far Cry 5

Film and television

  • Faith (1916 film) or The Virtuous Outcast, a 1916 American silent film
  • Faith (1919 film), a 1919 American film directed by Charles Swickard and Rex Wilson
  • Faith (1920 film), an American silent romantic drama film
  • Faith (British TV series), a 1994 two part TV miniseries
  • Faith (South Korean TV series), a 2012 fusion fantasy-historical-medical series
  • "Faith" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2008 television episode
  • "Faith" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2002 television episode
  • "Faith" (Stargate Universe), a 2010 television episode
  • "Faith" (Supernatural), a 2006 television episode
  • "Faith" (The Walking Dead), a 2022 television episode

Ships

  • SS Faith, the first concrete ship built in the United States
  • MV Empire Faith, a British CAM (catapult aircraft merchant) ship, converted to cargo ship in 1943

Other

  • Faith (dog) (2002–2014), bipedal dog, born with only three legs
  • Faith (shoe retailer), British shoe company
  • Faith 7, name given to the space capsule, by its pilot, in the 1963 US space mission Mercury-Atlas 9
  • Faith (novel), first in the Faith, Hope, Charity espionage trilogy of novels by Len Deighton
  • Hurricane Faith, a tropical cyclone which reached the Faeroe Islands, part of the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Faith, a magazine published by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing
  • Faith (meteorite), a chondrite meteorite
  • Faith: The Unholy Trinity, a trilogy of retro style horror video games

See also

  • Faith-based schools
  • Faith healing
  • Faithfulness
  • Leap of faith (disambiguation)
  • The Faith (disambiguation)
  • Faithful (disambiguation)
  • Faithless (disambiguation)
  • Unfaithful (disambiguation)