Hope and Faith - both can be used for good or bad or from either optimism or delusion. Where both lead to free willed decisions: they are the mirror reflection inside the boundary of the equal statistical potential of the random good and bad outside the boundary of what can either hurt or help us.

So it must come down to assessing stats of what’s coming our way using intuition but because it’s not an action (it’s a thought that requests the world provide us something and do the action we need but can’t do) then it doesn’t need outer- directed conscience or ethics.

So it must in its best use be a kind of conscientiousness toward ourselves, an optimizing of our own function in times when we can’t act to solve something. A kind of self-soothing with a good intention such that we live to fight another day. 

When we have boundary with no holes we don’t need faith or hope. The faith and hope is in the boundary and we are solid and certain we are safe.

However it might be the “planning phase” of fixing a boundary hole, a place of vulnerability and therefore helpless actionlessness where we need protection at least mentally and it’s a guide to eventual action when conditions are right and resources available.

We’d better then act when we get the chance.

Then the hole is repaired when we say NO to something and take new action in new directions.

It was the hope or faith that helped us warm up then save ourselves.

Now we believe in ourselves and can have faith in our own competence, beneficence and skill and feel more secure and contributory to the world.