What do you believe in ?

[Diver]

Oh yes, I remember hope.

Mine seemed to disappear just after my 50th birthday

[NotAllThere]

Probably my favorite Christmas song :

They said there'll be snow at Christmas,
They said there'll be peace on earth,...

...Hallelujah! Noel!, be it Heaven or Hell,
The Christmas we get, we deserve.

I like this one, by Christian author Adrian Plass:

Away in a gutter
No food and no bed
The little Lord Jesus
Hangs down his sweet head
The stars in the bright sky
Look down and they say
The little Lord Jesus
Is wasting away.

We love you Lord Jesus
We hope you survive
We’ll see you tomorrow
If you’re still alive
You won’t live for long now
With no tender care
You’re best off in heaven
We’ll see you up there.

The darkness is lifting
The baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus
No movement he makes
No flesh on his body
No light in his eye
The little Lord Jesus
Is going to die.

[d000hg]

The poll sucks. What does "God" mean? The Christian god? Jewish? Both? "God" could normally encompass the main monotheistic religions, including Islam. Better to ask what religion people are.

[Diver]

The poll sucks. What does "God" mean? The Christian god? Jewish? Both? "God" could normally encompass the main monotheistic religions, including Islam. Better to ask what religion people are.

And he missed out Pie and cake

[NickFitz]

Belief is the acceptance that something is true
Faith is the unquestioning acceptance that something is true

According to EOD. But not the OED... well, depening on context.

For the avoidance of doubt, let's have a look at the OED, shall we? It's not as if it's chained to a shelf in a monastery on a remote island somewhere...

belief
• noun 1 a feeling that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. 2 a firmly held opinion. 3 (belief in) trust or confidence in. 4 religious faith.

faith
• noun 1 complete trust or confidence. 2 strong belief in a religion. 3 a system of religious belief.

Make of that what you will.

The poll's still rubbish because it fails, as any such poll must, to address the inordinate diversity of things-that-are-believed-in. I'll go for the Andyw option as being the default mechanism for expressing the belief that the poll sucks.

[NotAllThere]

Just got back from the monastery, and boy do my arms ache from all that rowing! Especially as I had to go back for the bolt cutters for the chain.

My OED says:

Belief:

1. Trust, confidence; faith (Followed by in, of a person or thing.
b) Trust in God; religious faith; acceptance of any received theology
2. Mental acceptance of a statement, fact, doctrine, thing, etc. as true or existing (Followed by in a thing, in or of a statement etc. that something is the case )

Faith:

I. Confidence, belief
1. Confidence, reliance, belief, esp. without evidence or proof
b) Belief based on testimony or authority
2. What is or should be believed; a system of firmly held beliefs or principles: a religion
3. Belief in the doctrines of a religion
b) The spiritual apprehension of divine truth or intangible realities