Believe vs. Trust

Believe (verb)

To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

“If you believe the numbers, you’ll agree we need change.”

“I believe there are faeries.”

Believe (verb)

To accept that someone is telling the truth.

“Why did I ever believe you?”

Believe (verb)

To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

“After that night in the church, I believed.”

Believe (verb)

To consider likely

“ux|en|I believe it might rain tomorrow. (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)”

Trust (noun)

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

“He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.”

Trust (noun)

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

Trust (noun)

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.”

Trust (noun)

That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.

Trust (noun)

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

Trust (noun)

Trustworthiness, reliability.

Trust (noun)

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

Trust (noun)

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.”

Trust (noun)

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.

Trust (noun)

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.

Trust (noun)

Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Trust (verb)

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.

“We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.”

“In God We Trust – written on denominations of US currency”

Trust (verb)

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

Trust (verb)

To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

“I trust you have cleaned your room?”

Trust (verb)

to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.

Trust (verb)

To commit, as to one’s care; to entrust.

Trust (verb)

To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

“Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.”

Trust (verb)

To risk; to venture confidently.

Trust (verb)

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

Trust (verb)

To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

Trust (verb)

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Trust (adjective)

Secure, safe.

Trust (adjective)

Faithful, dependable.

Trust (adjective)

of or relating to a trust.