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* "Help me, Obi-Wan. You're my only hope." Princess Leia's message to Obi-Wan Kenobi, sent via R2-D2 in ''Franchise/StarWars'' ''Episode IV: Film/ANewHope''.

* In ''Film/Ultraviolet2006'', Garth is the only person Violet can trust, as she's got nowhere else left to go.
* "You're my only hope," says Roger Rabbit to Eddie Valiant in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
* In ''Film/ShutterIsland'', Teddy Daniels describes and treats his partner, Chuck Aule, as this, despite the two apparently meeting for the first time on the ferry to the island. It becomes even more poignant after [[spoiler: you realize that "Chuck" is actually his longtime psychiatrist]].

* A darker than usual example occurs in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', in which Mr. Pink declares that Mr. Blonde is the only one of the bank robbers he trusts absolutely not to be an undercover police officer... because Mr. Blonde has already demonstrated himself to be a vicious sociopath willing to murder innocent people for no reason whatsoever.
-->'''Mr. Pink:''' He's too fuckin' homicidal to be working with the cops.

* In ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd'', Lonesome Rhodes makes it clear over and over again that Marcia is the only person whom he really trusts. Her ultimate betrayal utterly breaks him.

* ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'': After his family partners with SHIELD, Splinter makes it clear that he doesn't trust the organization as a whole (believing that not everyone employed there is trustworthy). He does, however, trust Fury and Coulson, as they respect his wishes to keep the family a secret from most of the agency and don't seek out the family's home (only being told that it's under the city).

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': Every incarnation of the Turtles has them hiding from the rest of the world for most of their lives. April is almost always the first human they meet, and she quickly becomes the only person from the surface that they trust. The same goes for Casey Jones, as he usually becomes Raph's [[VitriolicBestBuds best]] [[BashBrothers friend]] and an ally to the Turtles. In ''[[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Rise]]'', it's taken even further with her being a childhood friend of the Turtles who's known them for years by the series' pilot.

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'': After his family partners with SHIELD, Splinter makes it clear that he doesn't trust the organization as a whole (believing that not everyone employed there is trustworthy). He does, however, trust Fury and Coulson, as they respect his wishes to keep the family a secret from most of the agency and don't seek out the family's home (only being told that it's under the city).

* ''Fanfic/Ben10Unlimited'': Considering what happened to him in his old universe after his secret identity was exposed, Ben is much more careful with his identity in the DCAU. For a long time, the only people he trusts with his identity are the founding members of the Justice League, Kara, Ma and Pa Kent, and the Bat family. For most of the fic, he goes to the Watch Tower as one of his alien forms (often using Diamondhead or Four-arms).

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': One of the taglines for the show is "[=Trustno1=]". Mulder and Scully make it clear often that they trust each other unfailingly and above everyone else.

* In the ''Series/WhiteCollar'' episode "Vital Signs", a drugged Neal tells Peter, "You're the only one I trust."

* When Series/InspectorLynley's wife Helen is [[spoiler:critically injured in a car accident]], Lynley asks his partner Barbara Havers to stand watch outside her hospital door - and though he takes his anger out on her when she has to, of all things, use the loo, he tells her later that he's terribly sorry, and that she is the only one he trusts to do the job properly.

* ''Series/DancingOnTheEdge'': When his friends start turning on him after he is framed for murder, [[spoiler: Louis]] goes straight to Stanley. His trust is, thankfully, completely justified.

* ''Series/Babylon5'':
** Londo has three wives, all of whom were from {{Arranged Marriage}}s and none of whom he likes. When TheEmperor allows him to dissolve two of his marriages, he decides to retain his first wife, who openly insults him, because at least she doesn't ''pretend'' to like him like the other two. (But the audience knows that [[HiddenHeartOfGold she really does care for him deep down]].)
** When Londo discovers that Emperor Cartagia is insane and has made a deal with the Shadows that will result in the destruction of Centauri Prime, he summons the one person he can honestly call a friend after a lifetime of cutthroat politics to help him take Cartagia down - his aide, Vir.
* In the first episode of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'', Five tells Vanya that she's the only one of their dysfunctional family he can trust about his plan to stop the apocalypse since as TheTeamNormal, she'll listen. Becomes ironic in light of how [[spoiler:she winds up being the cause of it]].

* In ''Film/Banlieue13Ultimatum'', when Damien discovers he's been framed for drug dealing by the police department he works for, he promptly grabs a phone and calls Leito for help.

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'':
** After his family partners with SHIELD, Splinter makes it clear that he doesn't trust the organization as a whole (believing that not everyone employed there is trustworthy). He does, however, trust Fury and Coulson, as they respect his wishes to keep the family a secret from most of the agency and don't seek out the family's home (only being told that it's under the city).
** Doctor Connors is this to Donatello and Petra, as he is the first SHIELD scientist they meet who ''doesn't'' freak out upon meeting a mutant turtle.
** April is the one human that the Hamato family trusts completely, as she's been their friend and honorary family member for four years by the time Petra gets [[Franchise/SpiderMan her powers]].