take on faith

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take on faith (third-person singular simple present takes on faith, present participle taking on faith, simple past took on faith, past participle taken on faith)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To accept something without seeing evidence supporting it, by trust or confidence.

   Synonym: take on trust

   • 2010, Mark R. Crovelli, Gathering Data while Washington Burns:

     Their own parents, for example, will be able to regale them with tales about how they simply took it on faith that democracy was the best possible form of government, and this blinded them from even considering the possibility that Washington was full of idiots and crooks.