i'm sorry, Ethel, but faith isn't really what you've described...

But I'm glad you pointed out Abraham. Look at his faith. "Against all hope"[Rom 4:18], he believed God was gonna give him a son. And God did.... then
Gen 22:2
"take your son, YOUR ONLY SON, and go... sacrifice him."
guess what faith made Abraham do?

22:3
"early the next morning..... Abraham got up..."

That blows me away. after all his pining for a son (and even after contriving against God to get his own son thru Hagar), Abraham still swallowed up all those hopes up and did what God told him.

Check out Rom 4 and Heb 11. Faith ISN'T hoping for God to give us what we WANT. it ISN'T wishing against something we know is CERTAIN (eg hoping for a sudden change of heart in someone).

Heb 11:39-40
"These were all commended for the faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect."