In our paper, we studied five separate Swedish Government Official Reports, focused primarily on different integration processes, which were published throughout the period 2000-2024. Many of these reports focused on ways to build trust in immigrant communities. Because there are two rival theories on how to build trust: bottom-up through generalised trust or top-down through institutional trust, our study focused on discerning which of these perspectives seemed to inform the analyses presented in the reports. Primarily, we are interested in analysing whether or not there has been a shift over time in which of these two theories on trust-building are informing the analysis of the reports. We found that most reports recommended that trust be built primarily through trustworthy and reliable institutions. Over time, the top-down theory has remained the main explanatory theory of trust-building. However, the nuances of generalised trust have increasingly come into focus in the most recent reports, as more attention seems to be directed at the ways in which institutional trust impacts different facets of generalised trust.