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

Even though she’s a trained singer, with film credits including “Mamma Mia!” and “Les Misérables,” this peculiar religious epic required an enormous leap of faith.

From Los Angeles Times

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