Trust in the relation between ruled and ruler is not a supine psychic compulsion on the part of the former. Rather, it is an eminently realistic assessment of the irreversibility of a political division of labour and a sharp reminder, from the former to the latter, of the sole conditions that can make that division humanly benign.

DEFINE: Reframes 'trust' in political relations as a contingent, reciprocal assessment rather than an emotional compulsion — a distinctive conceptual clarification.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1231