Faith is trust in the truth of another. Such trust is required with or without a state. I can't imagine a classroom without such faith, or a family. There's faith outside of your fear of collectivism as well as outside your fear of superstition. Faith, at bottom, is the assent to the agency of another as sufficient for good.
Many English words have more than one meaning or connotation, which a careful thinker will take care to distinguish. In most cases, the meaning or connotation of a word can be established by the context in which it was used.
For example, the word "faith" has several connotations, including trustworthiness (he is a man of good faith) confidence in something (when we sit on a chair we have faith it will no collapse beneath us) or confidence in someone (most of us have faith in our doctors) or religious faith (no one can prove there is a God, you must accept it by faith).
Since this thread is about philosophy and religion, it is obviously "faith" in the last sense that is meant by, "faith is what individuals who hate the truth settle for."
When someone intentionally uses a word with one connotation, such as faith meaning "confidence in another," to justify or put over the another meaning of the word, such as faith meaning, "blind credulity," as in religion, it is essentially dishonest. I know that is not your intention, of course, and that you were only mistaken about the different connotations of the word. This is why we have to be so careful about the exact meaning of words.
Hank