The phrase "a collapse of trust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where trust between individuals or groups has significantly deteriorated or been lost.
Example: "The scandal led to a collapse of trust between the management and the employees, making it difficult to restore morale."
Alternatives: "a breakdown of trust" or "a loss of trust".
There has been a collapse of trust.
Bradford is a powerful message of a collapse of trust between people and politicians.
Last night, at least, the communion between Sanders and his most enthusiastic voters seemed to dwell on a collapse of trust.
The enlargement of Nato, Kosovo, missile defence plans and wars in the Middle East had led to a "collapse of trust", said Gorbachev, now 83.
Behind the disappearance of liquidity lies a collapse of trust: market players don't want to lend to each other, because they're not sure they'll be repaid.
The biggest obstacle that now stands in the way of success is psychological: the cumulative effect of years of violence and the expansion of Israeli settlements have led to a collapse of trust on both sides.
These romances offer a way around what is now the basic political problem, a collapse of social trust.
Since then, both sides have been embroiled in arguments about data privacy, with much talk among officials and diplomats of a collapse of German trust in the Americans.
But it believed the "country is left nonetheless with a collapse of public trust in the press and the police, with important implications for freedom of speech".
It was not one primarily of cash flow, but of recurrent deficits and a collapse of market trust in the city, and Mr. Carey feared that the city's problem could spread to the state.
She would like more "country of origin" labelling on food of all kinds, and more funding and authority for America's overstretched Food and Drug Administration, the main body responsible for food safety.She compares the pet-food crisis in America to the outbreak of mad-cow disease in Europe, which led to a collapse of public trust in food regulation.
