Religious texts and traditions live by their often fictious, symbolic, or poetic character, be they narrative or assertive in genre. Their potential to help cultivating social cohesion in and despite of processes of social transformation, however, will only be displayed if that character is reflected and understood as fictitious, symbolic, or poetic. Non-reflective, esp. non self-reflective, or highly normative dogmatic claims, on the contrary, are likely to deny the ambivalences and inevitable multiperspectivity in processes of social transformation and will enhance conflict and rupture. The paper will demonstrate this by a hermeneutic approach to visionary biblical texts and practices on trust, responsibility, and reliability.