Every day of my life, I accept as true things I cannot know. I don't know if the weatherman or even the thermometer is giving me correct information. I have no way of verifying that. I could ask people who say they know, but I have no way of telling whether they do know or not, and no way of determining if they speak the truth about what they say they know.
It appears to me to be true, because when they say it's 95 deg F, I am uncomfortably warm.
If someone asks me, do you know what the temperature is?, the truth is, no, I don't know. I believe, because I have chosen to believe.
I have more personal knowledge about whether there is God or there isn't God in my life than I have about today's temperature. It is not knowledge you have decided to believe. I get that. I accept the fact that you want proof I can't provide, and I get that too.
For you to make the decision that you accept as true certain things you don't know either, but I am arrogant to accept my belief as true, makes you more self righteous than the rest of us combined. What you are actually saying is that we cannot know things that you don't know.
Sure, some of us are wrong and some of us are right, and some day we will know, en masse, or individually, which is which.
At this point I consider myself not only a believer, but a knower, because it has been proven to my conviction that it is truth.
And if the weatherman looks sober, is standing before a convincing map, and says today's temperature will be 95 deg F, I will take his word for it and not bother with a sweater. Occasionally it will happen that is a mistaken belief. [@reflecting monkey]