take on trust

Example Sentences

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We are, she writes, “creatures of matter who long to matter”—to ourselves, to each other and to people and divinities whose existence we take on trust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In that context, “minor errors” in the checkable material take on considerable importance when we come to stuff we must take on trust.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2018

But here’s the thing about that cloud of unknowing, which even the saints take on trust: it’s not there to get through, like a test or a fever.

From Time • May 25, 2014

Indeed, perhaps for understandable reasons, there is no proof at all - only assertions that we must take on trust.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2013

Thought from without—O shall I take on trust,   And life from others modelled steal or win; Or shall I heave to light, and clear of rust       My true life from within?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean