We can see things moving faster than light

I always imagine the expansion of space differently. 
When a gas expands, it gets more volume and the distance between the molecules increases. 

This could be applied to stars, but I somehow find that nothing fits so well. Because with a classical expansion, the molecules move in the static space.

In the universe, I imagine that space is created between all objects. So out of nothing space arises (Wherever it comes from) and thereby the stars move away from each other, although they actually do not move at all. 

That would explain for me also why the stars can move away sometime faster than the light because they don't move at all in the space and therefore don't break the laws of the physics. 

Only it is always spoken about that the stars move away from us, but this would be actually wrong, right?