Well, yeah, I know where you were going with it, but that wasn't a very good example, at least not in the way you asked the questions. It doesn't require faith on my part for either question. To believe or to know either one is possible for me, without elements of faith. And I can't prove to you what is in my own mind. You'd have to have faith that I'm telling you the truth unless you observe the kind of behaviors that support what I claim. But then, that situation isn't at all analogous to spiritual faith.
Speaking of, I can have the same confident belief that my mother loved me as I do that you have faith that God exists. I can observe what you say and what you do and conclude that you have faith. But that's not the problem. The problem is, neither of us can apply that same process to prove God exists. You can't prove that God exists by your faith that he does. You can only prove you have faith.
I'm uncomfortable saying that I have trouble getting past that, because it makes it seem like a hurdle that I should be able to get past. And I don't think of it that way at all. It's like the sliding scale of belief. Circumstances can be such that you suspect something to be true, or evident enough that you believe something is true, or proof enough that you know it's true. Those are fairly objective thresholds. I think it's fine for people to accept things as true based on a religious faith, but I would call that belief, not truth. YOU may believe it's true, but I may not.
So you DID know what I was up to!
Point made