Is faith a dimension of character, though? Will being the right person, a good person, naturally be easy? What determines faith, though, if not character?
A character, a best self or goal self, may be known to different degrees. What you want to be, and how such a person works, may be more or less thoroughly and usefully known; children often idealize particular traits in their heroes, and are just as often disillusioned by the characters in which such singularly virtuous traits are nested; the pious are often one with the perverted, and the brave may indeed show no fear of committing cruelty.
Faith, then, may just amount to how much thought you put into your Self, how prepared you are for assaults on your character. This is why confidence may not be faked for long, and why is grows the more fragile the longer it is; confidence is not a quality of character, but rather a measure of it.
A decision, though, amounts to a judgement of what the sort of person you idealize yourself to be would do. Pursuing a particular course, in turn, amounts to understanding why anyone ever would, and then logically resolving this moral argument from a hypothetical Other with the values of your own hypothetical Self.
