When you get in your car, do you have to hope it will start, or do you trust that it will start?
When you breathe your prayers up, do you hope you are heard, or do you trust she does hear them all?
A reliable car is a good indicator in most of rural and suburban America of a reliable life. A reliable life makes faith easier. Reliability makes everything easier.
Is easier better?
Who is more pious, the rich or the poor?