Faith/Hope will never be enough to convince me there is a heaven/hell. I can't live in that world or that mindset.
I do have faith of course. I have faith that if I live my life as a good person, that good things will be returned to me (kind to others, etc). The problem is, as every single one of us knows, that isn't enough to make it true. Good people get treated poorly for no sane reason at all sometimes. Sometimes bad things happen.
Believing or hoping that they won't is not going to stop it. Actually following through with the talk of being good will increase your odds of having a good or satisfying life, as it's all in the eye of the beholder.
It makes me very happy when I see people of a denomination or faith doing good works, and there are many examples of people doing good deeds because of their faith. Nothing wrong with that at all. Just as there are many examples of people without faith doing good deeds.
I just wish faith would stay a personal matter. Not something that's a requirement for higher office, or a means to judge someone else, or even hurt that person.
If Jesus/Allah/God/Yahweh/etc want me to follow them, I need more than faith. IMO, that's not free will, that's playing a game with my emotions and hedging a bet that I will follow for fear of being alone.
If a God were to present itself by it's own power, not speaking through "followers" or some vague imagine on a pancake
, I would then be able to make my decision, which would be a true representation of free will as the assumption in this scenerio would be that I have the evidence I have been asking for, and if I still chose not to believe.....that's truly being free.