If you think of agnosticism as someone who isn't sure, then, yes, an agnostic could be on the side of faith. Some agnostics want to believe, and may wish they could believe, but can't rationally bring themselves to do so.
Later Victorians and early moderns are known for having faced a crisis in faith such as this. With the growth of scientific thought, Darwin's new ideas, the failure of the industrial revolution to bring about a society better for all, etc., some found it no longer possible to believe as firmly as they once had. That doesn't mean they didn't want to.
Matthew Arnold's poem, "Dover Beach," is a famous example of someone who wants to believe like he once did, but is no longer able to do so:
The sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
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