Love

Is their a difference between being in love and loving the idea of love? If I worded that right. I mean loving the IDEA of love.

In the end, is their really a difference? I mean being in love with someone and loving the idea of someone would make you just as committed to them, the relationship etc. And you would never really know if you loved them or the other. So is their really such a thing as being in love? Or is their only loving the idea of love? I honestly don't know, I believe the latter is true, or at least that it what I go think I feel.