Moral agency requires grounding one’s beliefs in evidence. If a moral system declares believing without evidence to be a virtue, it asks to give up moral agency.
what if the evidence shows that belief without evidence leads to desirable outcomes?
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Are you sure that the belief in the evidence of that is justified by evidence, or is it just virtuous to think that? (It may sometimes be ethically correct to give up moral agency.)
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Issue is thoughts and beliefs of agents are causal like trees and rocks. Most people have a cartesian view of the world and want to base their beliefs on "reality" not knowing the implicit beliefs about what is or is not reality.
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A good rule of thumb: if something presents as a "belief" it's actually a working hypothesis or pragmatic heuristic. If something is "reality" or "real" that's actually what you believe.
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