taken on faith
Accepted without proof
Taken on faith describes something accepted as true without proof or verification, based on trust alone.
The phrase draws from religious faith, where belief doesn't require evidence: I took his explanation on faith.
It often implies a degree of risk—you might later discover your trust was misplaced: We took it on faith that the contractor knew what he was doing.
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- presuppositionImplicit prior assumption
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- creedStatement of belief
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
doctrine · sacred cow · revelation · authority · word of mouth · received wisdom · credulity · epistemology · acceptance · consensus · intuition · gut feeling · hypothesis · reliance · conviction · tradition · certainty · skepticism
taken on faithevidence-based
Supported by verified data
demonstrated · proven · substantiated · corroborated · fact-checked
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