I think that makes sense. In order to answer that question I think there's another interesting question to ask. If you think a little about it, I think you can see that it isn't anything about the belief considered by itself that makes the belief faith. It is, rather, the fact that the belief is accepted without any reasons . In other words, what makes a kind of religious belief not just belief, but faith , is the fact that the belief is not supported by arguments, or reasons, or evidence.
Faith is belief without reasons.
At least initially . There are some kinds of moderate fideism which say that one should have faith to begin with, and only then, when one's faith is strong enough, go out in search of reasons to believe. If, in order a belief to be rational, I must have reasons for the belief, then faith is, by definition, not rational. And in that sense, fideism specifically recommends that one not be rational. The question, then, is whether this is a very good notion about rationality.