on faith, take it



on faith, take it

Trust, accept without proof, as in I have no firm evidence that Bob's responsible for the errors-you'll just have to take it on faith . This idiom employs faith in the sense of "belief or confidence in something," a usage dating from about 1300.
See also: on, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Nickerson['nikəsn]
Alvera[æl'viərə]
Gavri'el-Biblical Hebrew
ElŽBieta-Lithuanian
Mads-Danish
Piloqutinnguaq-Native American, Greenlandic