There are two main ways in which faith differs from hope.

The first is that hope is directed toward the future, but faith is established in the present.

Hope is an attitude of expectancy concerning things that are yet to be, but faith is a substance – a confidence, something real and definite within us – that we possess here and now.

The second main difference between faith and hope is that hope is anchored in the realm of the mind; faith is anchored in the realm of the heart.

This is very strikingly brought out in Paul’s description of scriptural armour required by the Christian soldier.

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation (1 Thess. 5:8).

Derek Prince