Frankly, we don't want desperate people to be trusting because that is a precondition for organized criminality or even effective protest. Isolation by undermining trust eventually appears to backfire. Aboriginal peoples have been horribly rewarded for trusting the white man. Govier's recounting of 250 years of mistreatment of the Mohawks in South-eastern Quebec is exemplary. You may regard the events of the early nineties when the first nation warriors barricaded themselves on their reservation over the construction of a municipal golf course as being extreme - not after reading the history of their betrayal.
Totalitarian societies are an especially hard case.
Every relationship in dictatorships maintained by party line that is enforced by police repression is suspect. Vast numbers of everyone's friends and relatives are often paid informants of the secret state police. Ironically, such societies are so successful in stifling unauthorized trust they often disintegrate or implode. The Sources of Trust Democracy is subject to its own discontents. Govier writes of the need to share knowledge and our trust of knowledgeable professionals as prerequisites for a functioning free community.