Faith is often defended not as blind belief, but as trust in God after belief that God exists has already been formed. On this view, trusting God is analogous to trusting a spouse, friend, doctor, or pilot. This paper challenges that analogy. I argue that even if God’s existence is granted, trust in God’s present guidance differs from ordinary interpersonal trust in three respects. First, interpersonal trust presupposes reasonable confidence in authorship. Before I decide whether to trust a message, I must first determine who sent it. Alleged divine guidance however, often arrives through thoughts, impressions, circumstances, and interpretations that are equally compatible with ordinary psychological explanations. Second, interpersonal trust is corrigible. Trust grows because experience can confirm or challenge our assessment of another person’s reliability. By contrast, trust in God is often insulated from disconfirmation by explanations such as “yes, no, or wait.” Third, trust in God is often rationalised retrospectively through selected memories and reconstructed narratives. Human relationships are also vulnerable to such bias, but they are constrained by observable behaviour, direct feedback, and third-party correction. Retrospective trust in God often lacks these constraints. Together, these asymmetries challenge the God/Spouse analogy.
