Trust structures may later givver way to simple confidence

Evidence

Once such structures were built they might in due course relapse into occasions for confidence. But until they have been built the project of erecting them will remain as perilous and as urgent an exercise in the pragmatics of trust and betrayal as any staged in the mountains of the High Atlas (Gellner, this volume). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1270

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes ‘confidence’ from ‘trust’ — a key definitional boundary in the Luhmann line the reader is developing.
• XREF: The confidence-vs-trust distinction is core Luhmann material; pairs directly with the reader’s blindness-familiarity analysis.