It occurs to me that faith and hope are different in subtle but definable ways. Hope, to me, connotes waiting. It connotes a gap between where you are, and where you eventually want to be, a gap that is bridgeable, even if you don’t yet know how.
Faith exists in the present. It is a means of interacting with the present in such a way that you create hope through action. You expect better because you do better now. It is much more robust and fruitful than hope.