Simon
What I am talking about here is the way religous people see reality. Everything around them is illuminated by this wonderful glowing light which they recognise as the truth. It might not be the truth but it doesn't matter because to them, it is.
You are being biased I think To be religious you have only one criteria to fullfill, to believe in something.
We look at them and think they hold a belief. They don't see it as a belief (because it is implicit in the world "belief" that it is just a particular view point) but see it as something they know with as much certainty as they know themselves.
You just defined belief to me. To believe in something is to say that something is true.

It seems to me that the above sentance is missing something out. Something that goes where I have added the ellispses and is required to make that sentance, make sense. What do philosophers deal with? The study of truth and the nature of truth is the study of the meta rules of reality itself. What else, if not that, do philosophers deal with?
Philosophers are thinkers. To think is to be a philosopher.