Faith and knowledge are by definition mutually exclusive. If a premise is to be held on faith, it must be held in the absence of knowledge. When knowledge is acquired to substantiate the premise, it ceases to be held on faith. I think your porblem is epistemology, i.e. how do you "know." In fact, those who attempt to draw the 'distinction' you do, place way, way too much faith in how they 'know'.
In short, your 'knowledge' is based entirely on your (unsubstantiated) faith in the exclusivity of your preferred methods of acquiring 'knowledge.'
Nice little circle you've drawn there, son.
It's the same circle St Augustine drew. After spending about 100 pages on analysis of the seemingly contradictory nature of the aspects of God (ie how could God have created everything, know everything and be 100% good and yet the world has natural disasters (aka First Order Evil)) Augustine finally bailed on the whole thing, decided that you could not apply Greek logic to a Hebrew diety, faith and reason were incompatible. The difference between OWK and Augustine is that OWK decided he prefers reason and Augustine prefered faith.