It is the conscious acceptance of the risk involved in starting any relationship, any project, any beginning. It is the initiation of a new pact between ourselves and reality, between who we are and who we can become. This ancestral impulse is trust: a rigorous ethical and social value that is born with the human being and defines them in their very humanity. Not absolute, nor blind, and even less unconditional, trust is therefore the most human of postures—the one that holds individuals and peoples together: the fragile yet powerful substance of all possible coexistence, “the only path that can save our world from hell,” as Hannah Arendt, author of The Banality of Evil, warns.