Your assumption is correct, forward linking does expedite trust, so what you lose for that page (as far as link equity) you gain in trust, which can catapult multiple pages to the top of the SERPs instead. The key is to deep link 35% to the home page and 65% to related pages using the phrase you want to rank for on the target page as the deep link anchor text. In addition to that, you can link pages together (3 pages interlinked) to produce a compound ranking affect across multiple variations of the phrase. Using one of those pages for forward linking is enough, then linking to the other 2 for example can give them expression is search engines. I often call this the grappling hook technique, but it works well when used in tandem with other formulas for on page SEO and link optimization.