Trust requires some prior information and cannot arise from nothing

Evidence

Generally speaking, however, the truster seeks in his subjective image of the world some objective clues about whether or not trust is justified. Without any previous information trust would be nearly impossible. Trust exceeds on information; it rests on the truster being already au fait with certain general features, being already informed, even if incompletely and unreliably. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Granular-facework link: Stevens’s trust in Darlington rested on accumulated prior clues about the institutional order, not raw faith.