What is called trust in government may in fact be something short of trust as we experience it in interpersonal relations. This is confidence, or what we might call quasi trust. It is based on reasons for believing government agents to be trustworthy, reasons that do not involve direct relationships with the quasi trusting citizen.

DEFINE: Distinguishes quasi-trust (confidence based on reasons and indirect evidence) from interpersonal trust built on direct relationships.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 703