Faith.... ?

What is it like to have faith?
What is it like to think (or know) that there is someone or something out there that is protecting you and loving you and keeping you safe? That there is someone who has a great plan, who hears your prayers (if you pray), who knows your secrets, hopes and dreams?
What is it like to think that there is a greater being/thing/God/Goddess/whatever who thinks that a certain trait is bad? To believe that homosexuality is literally against God? To think that Caucasian people are greater than other races? Or that only those who do not have sex before they are married will go to Heaven when they die?
What is it like to think that your race is right, and that others are wrong? To believe that the religion you practice is the true way, and that all others are wrong, or bad, or against God? To think that those who do not practice your religion are confused, and that you must save them, or they will go to Hell when they die?
What is it like to live all of your life by a set of rules, to follow those rules as well as you can, because you know that you will be rewarded? To have the faith that whatever you do, if you die, God will protect you, and if you die, and have lived a good life, you will be happy when you die, and there is a place of peace waiting for you... To know that everything will turn out right in the end?
What is it like to have faith that having faith will reward you? To have faith that faith will see you through everything? That religion really will save you? That God is, in fact, your copilot?