But here note that this category has two odd features. First, it sounds more nearly like a simple expectations account than a richer trust account. In this account, I supposedly think everyone is reliable up to some degree independently of who they are or what relationship I have with them. I think this of them the way I might think the typical person would behave in certain ways in various contexts.

DEFINE: Distinguishes a thin expectations account from a richer relational trust account.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 96