Suppose I rely on you more than can be enforced by withdrawing from future interactions with you. I act as though I trust you when in fact I do not. My action is virtually a gift—or, better, it is a gamble and a hope, not a manifestation of trust.

DEFINE: Distinguishes genuine trust from merely acting as if one trusts when enforcement mechanisms are absent — the gamble is simulation, not trust itself.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 382