Unfounded faith is not the trust people ordinarily place in others.

Evidence

There are, however, theories of trust based on the assumption that trust is (or at least can be) a two-part relation of the form A trusts B, without any conditional constraint on the scope of the trust. If trust is unfounded faith, such as Abraham evidently had in his god, it could be as simple as this two-part relation, without any limits. It should be superficially evident that the field of play for a theory of trust that is restricted to such cases is limited. Most of us do not even have it for Abraham’s god. Such unfounded faith is not relevant to the trust that most of us sometimes have in others. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 311

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes unfounded-faith trust (a simple A-trusts-B relation with no scope constraints) from the conditional, scope-limited trust Hardin builds his theory on.