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Assuming the vort is for a sheva berachos or related event Try this Actually, you could massage this to fit other situations.
Re: Bayas Ne’eman

A word about emunah. As alluded to in the above cited pasuk in Beshalach, Emunah is not simple blind faith. Emunah requires an objective reason, in seeing and recognizing the Yad Hashem. You are familiar with the following gemorah in Maakos:
Rabban Gamliel, R’Elazar ben Azaria, R’Yehoshua and R’Akiva went up to Yerushalaim. When they reached Har HaBayis they tore their garments when they saw the Churban and, as they were viewing the wreckage, they saw a fox run out of the ruins of the Kodesh Kodoshim. All of the Tannaim except Rabbi Akivah, began to cry but Rabbi Akiva began to laugh. Rabbi Yehoshua asked, “Akiva, why are you laughing?” (He could address R’Akivah without the honorific because he was R’Akivah’s rebbi.). R’Akiva replied, “Well, why are you crying?” R’Yehoshua replied,” The holiest place in the world, a place where no stranger may enter except the Kohen Gadol and that only once a year is now a home for animals! Should we not cry?” R’Akiva explained. “There are two nevuahs. The first, by Uriah (actually Michah, see Rashi, loc cit) predicted the destruction of the Beis HaMiqdash in detail, including the prediction that it would become a home for animals. The second, by Zechariah, predicts the rebuilding. Now that I see the first nevuah is literally correct, I am confident that the second will be fulfilled.” Note that R’ Akiva’s belief in the Geulah and the restoration of the Beis HaMiqdash wasn’t simply a hope. It was based on his observation of the explicit kiyum of known nevuah.
So that’s the key. As we experience and witness the reality around us, may the Riboneh shel Olam grant us the eyes to see and the intellect to recognize His Hand in the world, and may He also allow us to witness, with our own eyes, the complete Geulah and Biyas Moshiach, b’meheirah b’yameinu.