The Crimson Binome
Hero
No, a "hit" means that you hit and caused injury, and "7 hp" tells you how much injury you caused. You definitely hit, if you hit, because that's what the attack roll means. Suggesting otherwise would be ridiculous, and there's no reason whatsoever why anyone would jump to such an inane conclusion.But "hit" and "damage" here are purely mechanical notions. Nothing in the rules correlates them to the fiction.
This is the point Hussar has repeatedly made. If someone is "hit" by a sword and takes "7 hp" of "damage", this could be anything from a wrongfooting which sets the character back (the depletion of luck and divine favour) to a mere scratch to a bruise to a serious cut.
It would be nearly as ridiculous to suggest that someone could take damage without that corresponding to some physical deterioration of the flesh, though there are a couple of wonky corner cases where a poorly-written rule might be interpreted that way.