Thinks I "imagined" is a imprecise word. Trouble is: to each it has a different meaning! All based on consciousness and experience.
I think that imagination is very important as in the days of early Babylon, "nothing that they would have imagined would have been impossible." So imagination may have a source different from the thoughts of G-d. Faith actually comes from words heard from the voice of HaShem.
Spiritual Faith becomes real when repeated out loud from belief for a given situation.
Remembering (Ro 10:17)
Natural Faith comes from a set of strongly held thoughts and experiences sometimes called a paradigm. This faith often guides a life, but may not be according to goals and thoughts of our Messiah.
Faith also is the substance of those things Hoped for, the evidence not visible with the natural eye.
So to the extent that hope and imagination coincide, faith derives from imagination. So it would not be just any imagination but imagination. (I Know the plans that I have for you, Plans a good end, for a hope and a future!)
Imagination for a desirable outcome yields faith. Imagination for a undesirable outcome would yield fear. The trick is to realize that some bad past outcomes do not predetermine a future bad outcome.
So let us Hope for the good, speak the best, live the best, give the best,
in short set our imaginations on the things of G-d!
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