The Master touched the true heart of things there. True Faith is independent of Sense Knowledge. The antagonism of the scholastic world to the Revelation called the Bible is that the Bible demands faith in things the Senses cannot apprehend. By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear. Hope is not faith.
Faith is always now.
Hope is in the future.