Faith means that you start to (1) see (Ephesians 1:17–18). God’s promise opens a new world. Those who believed also were (2) convinced and (3) glad about God’s promises (= they greeted them from afar; John 8:56) and (4) confessed the hope of faith to other people. That is the repeated exhortation in this letter (Hebrews 4:14 and Hebrews 10:23): to confess your hope.
13 C'est dans la foi qu'ils sont tous morts, sans avoir obtenu les choses promises; mais ils les ont vues et saluées de loin, reconnaissant qu'ils étaient étrangers et voyageurs sur la terre.