 Further, the trusting relation requires that the promised act typically be important to and desired by the promisee. So on the trust view, promises are simultaneously invitations to trust in the promisor’s execution and acknowledgments of the importance and value of the promised act, as well as the other moral characteristics integral to the trusting relation. Promissory obligations are formed on the basis of the acceptance, or “uptake”, in the jargon, of these invitations to trust.