I'm pretty sure he means you have a blind belief in something that provides no value to you.  You cannot disprove the existence of a god or an architect.  So why would you take the negative with absolutely no proof?  The believers in god also have no proof however their belief gives them hope.  Someone "believing" in god makes sense.  Someone "believing" in something that offers them no hope is a bit more hard to understand.  I'm agnostic as I don't really know one way or another.  Although the flat earth journey has me looking for answers.  

It's very interesting that the radicalized ball believers (people who spend years on here even though they do not believe in it/people who spend their weekends in here ridiculing people for a laugh) are also Atheists to the point where they feel the need to tell us about it.  There may be a link here.