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Of course the other meaning of faith is not mutually exclusive to Christianity. On the other hand there is a great difference on emphasis of this meaning of faith. It's not like unitarians, quakers, catholics or whatever believe in sola fide. Yet most protestants bang on about it endlessly. It's only really like that in common conversation as we live in a country that was on that side in the reformation. It's been a trendy phrase since the reformation because (a) it promotes that aspect of protestantism (b) people have a phobia of the r word and by instead emphasising on the personal beliefs aspect of it it again reinforces protestantism.

I just said I think it's possible to be a christian without faith. It's not especially likely with how the balance of christianity falls but there you go. Of course there are going to be people that say you need faith alone or whatever else, if people didn't believe that we wouldn't have the reformation and all would be hunky dory.