Kierkegaard talks about the idea of being a knight of faith.
He puts forward a proposition that I think is akin to the idea that undergirds marriage, which is:
You cannot find out whether creation is Good or Evil without being all in on your bet. Just like you cannot be married without saying, “I am shackling myself to you and I am not going to run away no matter what. So we better get to know each other and get along because this is how it is going to be.”
Without that, you cannot be deeply committed enough to the marriage to make it work. So, it seems to me, that at the forefront of faith, you have to act in the world with courageous trust—not naïve trust, but courageous trust—in the potential goodness of being to discover whether or not that faith is justified.
And that is partly why it is faith; you have to put the cart before the horse.
Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.
