Hope vs. Trust: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Trust is the reliance on the integrity, strength, or ability of someone or something.
Key Differences
Hope is an optimistic state of mind, based on the expectation of positive outcomes. It's a personal, internal feeling. In contrast, Trust involves a belief in the reliability or truthfulness of others or systems, making it relational and dependent on external entities.
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Hope often stems from one's desires and aspirations, without needing evidence or proof. It is more about personal optimism. Trust, however, is built on past experiences, credibility, and evidence. It's a judgment based on the consistency and dependability of others.
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Hope is largely independent of others' actions. It resides within an individual and doesn't necessarily require someone else's involvement. Trust is inherently dependent on the actions and behaviors of other people or systems, and it involves a level of vulnerability and risk.
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While hope can inspire and motivate individuals, it doesn't directly impact relationships. Trust, on the other hand, is fundamental to relationships. It forms the foundation for meaningful interactions and connections between people or institutions.
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Hope can be resilient in the face of challenges, often persisting despite obstacles. Trust, conversely, can be fragile. Once broken, it can be difficult to rebuild, significantly impacting the dynamics of a relationship or system.
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Comparison Chart
Basis
Personal desires, less evidence-based
Past experiences, evidence-based
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Impact on Relationships
Motivational, but not relational
Fundamental to relationships
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Resilience
Often persists despite challenges
Can be fragile and hard to rebuild
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Hope and Trust Definitions
Hope
Hope is a desire for things to change for the better.
He hoped that the new year would bring more joy.
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Trust
Trust is confidence in someone's reliability and honesty.
She trusted her friend to keep her secrets.
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Hope
Hope is an optimistic attitude towards the future.
Despite the odds, she remained hopeful about her recovery.
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Trust
Trust is the belief in the dependability of a person or system.
He trusted the safety mechanisms of the airplane.
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Hope
Hope is the aspiration for a desired result.
The athlete hoped to win the championship.
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Trust
Trust is expecting consistency and truthfulness from others.
Parents trust teachers to educate their children.
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Hope
To wish for a particular event that one considers possible
We are hoping for more financial support.
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Trust
Firm belief in the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing; confidence or reliance
Trying to gain our clients' trust.
Taking it on trust that our friend is telling the truth.
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Trust
The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one
Violated a public trust.
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Hope
To desire and consider possible
I hope that you will join us for dinner. We hope to buy a house in the spring.
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Hope
The longing or desire for something accompanied by the belief in the possibility of its occurrence
He took singing lessons in the hope of performing in the musical.
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Hope
An instance of such longing or desire
Her hopes of becoming a doctor have not changed.
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Trust
Something committed into the care of another; a charge
Violated a public trust.
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Hope
A source of or reason for such longing or desire
Good pitching is the team's only hope for victory.
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Trust
Reliance on something in the future; hope
We have trust that the future will be better.
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Hope
Often Hope(Christianity) The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.
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Trust
Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit
Bought the supplies on trust from a local dealer.
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Trust
A legal relationship in which one party holds a title to property while another party has the entitlement to the beneficial use of that property.
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Hope
To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
I am still hoping that all will turn out well.
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Trust
The confidence reposed in a trustee when giving the trustee legal title to property to administer for another, together with the trustee's obligation regarding that property and the beneficiary.
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Hope
(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
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Trust
An institution or organization directed by trustees
A charitable trust.
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Trust
A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or industry.
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Hope
The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
After losing my job, there's no hope of being able to afford my world cruise.
There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
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Trust
To have or place confidence in; depend on
Only trusted his friends.
Did not trust the strength of the thin rope.
Could not be trusted to oversee so much money.
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Trust
To have confidence in allowing (someone) to use, know, or look after something
Can I trust you with a secret?.
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Hope
(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
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Hope
A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
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Trust
To place in the care of another person or in a situation deemed safe; entrust
"the unfortunate souls who trusted their retirement savings to the stock" (Bill Barnhart).
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Trust
To have or place reliance; depend
We can only trust in our guide's knowledge of the terrain.
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Trust
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
To lose trust in someone
Build up trust
A relationship built on mutual trust
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Hope
A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.
The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
He wished, but not with hope.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.
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Hope
One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
The Lord will be the hope of his people.
A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of learning was highly commendable.
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Trust
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
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Hope
That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
Lavina is thine elder brother's hope.
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Trust
That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
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Hope
To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; - usually followed by for.
But I will hope continually.
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Hope
To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; - usually followed by in.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
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Hope
To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
We hope no other from your majesty.
[Charity] hopeth all things.
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Trust
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
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Trust
(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
I put the house into my sister's trust.
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Hope
A specific instance of feeling hopeful;
It revived their hope of winning the pennant
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Trust
(legal) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
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Hope
The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled;
In spite of his troubles he never gave up hope
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Trust
A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
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Hope
Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future;
There is little or no promise that he will recover
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Trust
(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
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Hope
Someone (or something) on which expectations are centered;
He was their best hope for a victory
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Trust
(transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
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Hope
United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (born in 1903)
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Hope
Expect and wish;
I trust you will behave better from now on
I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise
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Trust
(transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
I trust you have cleaned your room?
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Hope
Be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes;
I am still hoping that all will turn out well
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Trust
(transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
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Hope
Intend with some possibility of fulfilment;
I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening
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Hope
Hope is a feeling of expectation for a specific outcome.
She held onto the hope that she would find her lost dog.
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Trust
(transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
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Hope
Hope is the belief in the possibility of positive events.
They hoped for peace in times of turmoil.
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Trust
To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
To trust to luck
Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
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Trust
(intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
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Trust
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
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Trust
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
Most take things upon trust.
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Trust
Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
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Trust
Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
His trust was with the Eternal to be deemedEqual in strength.
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Trust
That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
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Trust
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust.
Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
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Trust
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
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Trust
An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
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Trust
An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary.
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Trust
A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.
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Trust
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
I will never trust his word after.
He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
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Trust
To hope confidently; to believe; - usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
We trustwe have a good conscience.
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Trust
To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust,Now to suspect is vain.
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Trust
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
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Trust
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
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Trust
To risk; to venture confidently.
[Beguiled] by theeto trust thee from my side.
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Trust
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
More to know could not be more to trust.
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Trust
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
I will trust and not be afraid.
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Trust
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
Her widening streets on new foundations trust.
They trusted unto the liers in wait.
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Trust
Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary);
He is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father
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Trust
Certainty based on past experience;
He wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists
He put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun
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Trust
The trait of trusting; of believing in the honesty and reliability of others;
The experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity
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Trust
A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service;
They set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly
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Trust
Complete confidence in a person or plan etc;
He cherished the faith of a good woman
The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust
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Trust
A trustful relationship;
He took me into his confidence
He betrayed their trust
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Trust
Have confidence or faith in;
We can trust in God
Rely on your friends
Bank on your good education
I swear by my grandmother's recipes
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Trust
Be confident about something;
I believe that he will come back from the war
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Trust
Expect and wish;
I trust you will behave better from now on
I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise
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Trust
Confer a trust upon;
The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
I commit my soul to God
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Trust
Trust is reliance on the integrity of others.
The team trusted their leader's decisions.
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Trust
Trust is having faith in someone's character and actions.
She trusted her doctor's expertise and advice.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
Can hope exist without trust?
Yes, hope can exist independently of trust, as it is an internal state.
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What makes trust crucial in relationships?
Trust is the foundation of relationships, enabling reliance and confidence in others.
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What is the essence of hope?
Hope is an optimistic outlook for future positive outcomes.
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What happens when trust is broken?
Broken trust can lead to damaged relationships and requires effort to rebuild.
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How does hope influence mental health?
Hope can positively impact mental health by providing a sense of optimism.
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Is trust always based on past experiences?
Typically, trust is built on past experiences and evidence of reliability.
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Is hope always positive?
Hope is generally positive, but unrealistic hope can sometimes lead to disappointment.
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Can trust exist without proof or evidence?
Generally, trust is based on some form of proof or consistent experience.
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How is hope beneficial in tough times?
Hope provides motivation and resilience during adversity.
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Can hope be unrealistic?
Yes, sometimes hope can be based on unrealistic expectations.
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Is trust immediate or does it develop over time?
Trust usually develops over time through consistent and reliable behavior.
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Does hope require action?
Hope often inspires action but doesn't necessarily require it.
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Can hope change outcomes?
While hope itself doesn't change outcomes, it can motivate actions that influence results.
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Why is trust fragile?
Trust is fragile because it can be easily broken by dishonesty or inconsistency.
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How does hope affect decision-making?
Hope can influence decision-making by encouraging positive expectations.
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How does trust affect teamwork?
Trust is essential in teamwork for collaboration and effective communication.
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How is trust rebuilt?
Rebuilding trust involves consistent, honest behavior over time.
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Can trust be unconditional?
Trust is usually conditional, based on ongoing evidence of reliability.
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Is hope the same as optimism?
Hope is similar to optimism but specifically involves the desire for specific outcomes.
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Is trust a choice or a feeling?
Trust involves both a choice to rely on others and a feeling of confidence in their reliability.
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