Sure, beliefs are problematic, but utterly essential. We can not progress through the stages of development in life without passing though mythic-membership or literal belief structures. It's simply not possible to reach those higher levels where you gain access to rational and transrational capacities. Everyone is born at square one and must at some point be embedded in beliefs in order to grow to higher stages beyond them. You and I are able to move past beliefs but only because we once held them. All of us must be shepherded through and beyond beliefs somehow, so a religion of value must have both beliefs and a method to move beyond them.