Sentence:  Incapable of self-delusion , the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave , and yet they <WSD>had</WSD> confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense