oppression, depression, faith, belief, self-confidence, desire, control: you cannot control and faith is giving up control.It's about control in a way. The world throws you a curve ball and you can change your perception of the situation by imposing the parameters of your world view on it - but you have to have faith in that world view or said curve ball will shatter it.

Faith is surrendering control (or rather, the illusion of control) and is not necessarily connected with religion. (Like spirituality is not necessarily connected with religion.)

Personally, I'd like to have faith in human nature. I'd like to trust that every person is out to treat others well in the hopes that others treat him/her well. But then, we all know how well the practise works out versus the theory, don't we?