Of course he is, but he is a great man. I don't think anyone is putting faith in him to save their eternal soul or anything like that. But they are putting faith in him to clean up corruption and strengthen the country.

It's kind of like, if somebody owns a company and they need task X done, they don't form a prayer group (at least not as their primary course of action). Instead, they hire someone who they think will be a good worker, and they put faith in that new employee to do the task.