hope vs. faith

"there's a trickle down theory at work in the church. The celibate priest advises married couples, the celibate nun advises teen on their sexuality. All i need is faith?
Faith in what? Faith in the fact that i can suspend the human thought process in order to allow for this kind of lunacy? no they say, it's the faith that brings sanity."
-lewis black
i believe strongly that's it more important to have hope, than it is to have faith. hope means you are optimistic you choose to see the good in a situation as opposed to the bad, faith in my opinion means you expect something from nothing. doesn't that seem dangerous?
expectations are dangerous especially when they are fantasies of unconditional acceptance. again a truly human creation. animals in the wild sometimes abandon their offspring. why? maybe there's something wrong with the baby and the mother senses it. but they're so cute and adorable, sad but that's life. death sucks. but it is a part of life, to cheat death or to somehow avoid its finality through fantasy seems to be a tragedy human nature cannot fully cope with. and that therefore effects the quality of life when we are still able to live it. i'm not loved here, i will be loved in death. how isn't that scary? that means that the disturbed can divorce themselves from their actions here on earth because in the end they fully believe the slate will be wiped clean in the afterlife. That gives them all the justification in the world to kill maim rape murder all under the mandate of an imaginary friend they expect will be waiting with open arms to play hopscotch in the clouds after they pass from this life. that is fucking terrifying. such is the power and the delusion of faith.