Questions of evidence and trust (or trust vs. faith) complicate our conversation, I think. If you have consistent, major evidence that your wife does not love

Questions of evidence and trust (or trust vs. faith) complicate our conversation, I think. If you have consistent, major evidence that your wife does not love you, then it would be intellectually dishonest to believe she does. Some religious faith does the equivalent of this- believing in spite of evidence. The way you're framing "faith" to me is closer to what I would consider "trust" which IMHO is basically faith of future truth based on current evidence of said truth. Of course, the final wrench, is believers have sources that they think are evidence (holy books)- but that faux-evidence is not the kind I am referencing.