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 There are many ways to parse the word faith.  “True” faith is not hearing disembodied voices, but consists of remembering who we are, and acting accordingly.  Personally, I do not believe in some anthropomorphic “king” of a god who resembles human beings.  But I am a man of faith.  I have faith that life is full of mysteries which are both beyond our ken and greater than us.  And while I may quibble with many bible verses…  (This magnificent text was written by notoriously fallible human beings) I take it on faith that hope and love are commensurable portions of those mysteries which we may acknowledge without full or immediate comprehension or any necessity of rational deconstruction.  Bush’s faith in a construct of God as a human, kinglike, judge, or warrior is rather primitive and dangerous.  I believe that every
human being is part of the human family.  That familial connection implies some duties and responsibilities to protect those
among us who might be young, weak, powerless, sick, poor, dispossessed, under seige, or at some other disadvantage.  This is not necessarily rational, but it is pragmatic and follows quite naturally, according to its own truth, from what we know of compassion. Such faith may move mountains, sustain families, and invest a nation or a people with hope, wisdom, and honor.  Unless I am mistaken, ”true belief” in the human capactity for “good” behavior, is meant to provide a counterpoint to the “false beliefs” of George Bush wherein disembodied voices (or delirium tremens) tell him to start wars, kill prisoners, or render people for toture, rape or murder.  ….It is not rational to ignore your senses or science, nor it this a tenant of any of the Abrahamic traditions (Judeo,
Christian, Muslim) This admonition is perhaps more typical a cult or nonsectarian brainwashing.  Those who have faith in
hope and compassion need not abandon rational thought nor scientific research.  And no “true” Muslim, Christian, or Jew 
would make such a ludicrous request.  There is no inherent contradiction between faith and reason, nor is there any necessary or fixed relationship between the the constructs.
   
Here are some interesting quotes…   
 
Thomas Jefferson:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.

Albert Einstein:

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith
in the orderliness of the universe.

E. B. White:

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

James Luther Adams:

The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions — social, economic, and political — of the common life.