leap of faith

Idioms  

1. A belief or trust in something intangible or incapable of being proved. For example, It required a leap of faith to pursue this unusual step of transplanting an animals' heart into a human patient.

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Example Sentences

My encouragement is that we kind of go out there and take a leap of faith and support the program and let that momentum build into what he’s going to do.”

From Los Angeles Times

“And that itself is a leap of faith. That joy will come in the morning.”

From Los Angeles Times

Manish Kapoor, a 54-year-old IT worker in Wisconsin, took a similar leap of faith, taking out a quarter-million-dollar home-equity loan and putting it all into shares of Palantir last November.

From MarketWatch

Writing this email and, hopefully, having your brother attend a therapy or mediation together is the first, giant leap of faith to healing your relationship.

From MarketWatch

Then Daddy and Mama decided to take a leap of faith.

From Literature