"Intent" is key to trust. As I said in the book Integrity, if we know that someone‘s intent is to help us, that they are "for" us, we open ourselves to them. We give to them. We cooperate with them. We invest in them. We share with them. We work, and even die for them. But if they are not "for" us, there are only two other possibilities. They are "for" themselves and neutral to us, or they are actually
"against us.