Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.
Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.
