Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Heb. 11:1) “Faith” in the rhetoric of this text is not a package of certitudes or a trusted mantra. It is rather reliance on and trust in a future-giving, future-hoping God who constantly makes a way out of no way. Thus faith, in this verse, promptly morphs into hope for the future that will be unlike the present. What follows in the chapter is a roll call of hopers who have refused the status quo because they trusted