A response from kinwove

Not quite in those terms — the Bible doesn't have a category for "faith without feeling" as a virtue to aim for. But it does describe faith working without the feeling being present, and holding steady in that gap.

The classic text is Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." The Greek word there is hypostasis (hypo-STAH-sis) — literally "standing under" or "substance." It's not emotion. It's a kind of inner substantiality, a weight-bearing capacity. You can have that without the warmth.

Then there's this from Peter: "Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy" (1 Peter 1:8). Notice what's real here: belief without seeing is presented as normal. The joy is described as real but "inexpressible" — it's not the kind of feeling that announces itself loudly or constantly.

The harder texts are the ones where people act in faith precisely against what they feel. Abraham "believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness" (Genesis 15:6) in the middle of doubt. The father in Mark 9 brings his demon-possessed son to Jesus and says, "I believe; help my unbelief" (Mark 9:24) — both things at once, true at the same time. That's not presented as a failure state to escape. It's presented as where faith lives.

What the Bible does seem to say: feeling follows sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. Faith isn't dependent on it arriving.