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Registrant Name dei_EntityRegistrantName JOHN HANCOCK BOND TRUST
Prospectus Date rr_ProspectusDate Oct. 01, 2012
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares
  
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Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading JOHN HANCOCK
GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading Investment objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock To seek a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital.
Objective, Secondary [Text Block] rr_ObjectiveSecondaryTextBlock Maintaining a stable share price is a secondary goal.
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading Fees and expenses
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock This table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts on Class A shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $100,000 in the John Hancock family of funds. More information about these and other discounts is available on pages 14 to 16 of the prospectus under “Sales charge reductions and waivers” or pages 98 to 100 of the fund’s statement of additional information under “Initial Sales Charge on Class A Shares.”
Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption Shareholder fees (%) (fees paid directly from your investment)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual fund operating expenses (%)
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination September 30, 2013
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading Portfolio turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 95% of the average value of its portfolio.
Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 95.00%
Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text] rr_ExpenseBreakpointDiscounts You may qualify for sales charge discounts on Class A shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $100,000 in the John Hancock family of funds. More information about these and other discounts is available on pages 14 to 16 of the prospectus under “Sales charge reductions and waivers” or pages 98 to 100 of the fund’s statement of additional information under “Initial Sales Charge on Class A Shares.”
Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount] rr_ExpenseBreakpointMinimumInvestmentRequiredAmount 100,000
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading Expense example
Expense Example by Year [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleByYearHeading Expenses ($)
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. Please see below a hypothetical example showing the expenses of a $10,000 investment in the fund for the time periods indicated (Kept column) and then assuming a redemption of all of your shares at the end of those periods (Sold column). The example assumes a 5% average annual return. The example assumes fund expenses will not change over the periods. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
Expense Example by, Year, Caption [Text] rr_ExpenseExampleByYearCaption Sold
Expense Example, No Redemption, By Year, Caption [Text] rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionByYearCaption Kept
Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading Principal investment strategies
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government and its agencies, authorities or instrumentalities (U.S. government securities). There is no limit on the fund’s average maturity.

U.S. government securities may be supported by:
  • the full faith and credit of the United States government, such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds, and Government National Mortgage Association Certificates.
  • the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury, such as obligations of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
  • the credit of the instrumentality, such as obligations of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
The fund may invest in higher-risk securities, including U.S. dollar-denominated foreign government securities and asset-backed securities. It may also invest up to 10% of assets in foreign government high-yield securities (junk bonds) rated as low as B and their unrated equivalents.

In managing the fund’s portfolio, the subadviser considers interest rate trends to determine which types of bonds to emphasize at a given time. The fund typically favors mortgage-related securities when it anticipates that interest rates will be relatively stable and favors U.S. Treasuries at other times. Because high-yield bonds often respond to market movements differently from U.S. government bonds, the fund may use them to manage volatility.

The fund may invest in mortgage-related securities and may engage in derivative transactions that include futures contracts and options, in each case, for the purposes of reducing risk, obtaining efficient market exposure and/or enhancing investment returns.
Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading Principal risks
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The fund’s shares will go up and down in price, meaning that you could lose money by investing in the fund. Many factors influence a mutual fund’s performance.

Instability in the financial markets has led many governments, including the United States government, to take a number of unprecedented actions designed to support certain financial institutions and segments of the financial markets that have experienced extreme volatility and, in some cases, a lack of liquidity. Federal, state and other governments, and their regulatory agencies or self-regulatory organizations, may take actions that affect the regulation of the instruments in which the fund invests, or the issuers of such instruments, in ways that are unforeseeable. Legislation or regulation may also change the way in which the fund itself is regulated. Such legislation or regulation could limit or preclude the fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective.

Governments or their agencies may also acquire distressed assets from financial institutions and acquire ownership interests in those institutions. The implications of government ownership and disposition of these assets are unclear, and such a program may have positive or negative effects on the liquidity, valuation and performance of the fund’s portfolio holdings. Furthermore, volatile financial markets can expose the fund to greater market and liquidity risk and potential difficulty in valuing portfolio instruments held by the fund.

The fund’s main risk factors are listed below in alphabetical order. Before investing, be sure to read the additional descriptions of these risks beginning on page 6 of the prospectus.

Active management risk The subadviser’s investment strategy may fail to produce the intended result.

Changing distribution levels risk The distribution amounts paid by the fund generally depend on the amount of income and/or dividends paid by the fund’s investments.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise honor its obligations. U.S. government securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk depending upon the nature of their support. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest-rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price. The following is a list of certain derivatives and other strategic transactions in which the fund intends to invest and the main risks associated with each of them:
Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.
Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.
Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney The fund’s shares will go up and down in price, meaning that you could lose money by investing in the fund.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text] rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Past performance
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock The following performance information in the bar chart and table below illustrates the variability of the fund’s returns and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance from year to year. However, past performance (before and after taxes) does not indicate future results. All figures assume dividend reinvestment. Performance for the fund is updated daily, monthly and quarterly and may be obtained at our Web site: www.jhfunds.com/FundPerformance, or by calling 1-800-225-5291, Monday–Thursday between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. and on Fridays between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Eastern Time.


Calendar year total returns These do not include sales charges and would have been lower if they did. Calendar year total returns are shown only for Class A shares and would be different for other share classes.

Average annual total returns Performance of a broad-based market index is included for comparison.

After-tax returns These are shown only for Class A shares and would be different for other classes. They reflect the highest individual federal marginal income tax rates in effect as of the date provided and do not reflect any state or local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns may be different. After-tax returns are not relevant to shares held in an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged investment plan.
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The following performance information in the bar chart and table below illustrates the variability of the fund’s returns and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance from year to year.
Performance Additional Market Index [Text] rr_PerformanceAdditionalMarketIndex Average annual total returns Performance of a broad-based market index is included for comparison.
Performance Availability Phone [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityPhone 1-800-225-5291
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress www.jhfunds.com/FundPerformance
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture However, past performance (before and after taxes) does not indicate future results.
Bar Chart [Heading] rr_BarChartHeading Calendar year total returns — Class A (%)
Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text] rr_BarChartDoesNotReflectSalesLoads Calendar year total returns These do not include sales charges and would have been lower if they did.
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock
Year-to-date total return The fund's total return for the six months ended June 30, 2012 was 2.53%.
 
Best quarter: Q3 '02, 5.44%
 
Worst quarter: Q2 '04, -2.72%
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Average annual total returns (%)
as of 12-31-11
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate They reflect the highest individual federal marginal income tax rates in effect as of the date provided and do not reflect any state or local taxes.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred Your actual after-tax returns may be different. After-tax returns are not relevant to shares held in an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged investment plan.
Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text] rr_PerformanceTableOneClassOfAfterTaxShown After-tax returns These are shown only for Class A shares and would be different for other classes.
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | Class A
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol JHGIX
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) on purchases as a % of purchase price rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOther 4.50%
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) as a % of purchase or sale price, whichever is less rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther 1.00% [1]
Management fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Other expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.30%
Total annual fund operating expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.15%
Contractual expense reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.17%) [2],[3]
Total annual fund operating expenses after expense reimbursements rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 0.98%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 545
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 783
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 1,039
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 1,770
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 545
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 783
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 1,039
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 1,770
2002 rr_AnnualReturn2002 10.26%
2003 rr_AnnualReturn2003 1.09%
2004 rr_AnnualReturn2004 2.70%
2005 rr_AnnualReturn2005 1.73%
2006 rr_AnnualReturn2006 3.70%
2007 rr_AnnualReturn2007 6.14%
2008 rr_AnnualReturn2008 5.87%
2009 rr_AnnualReturn2009 4.73%
2010 rr_AnnualReturn2010 5.84%
2011 rr_AnnualReturn2011 6.22%
Year to Date Return, Label rr_YearToDateReturnLabel Year-to-date total return The fund’s total return for the six months ended
Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date rr_BarChartYearToDateReturnDate Jun. 30, 2012
Bar Chart, Year to Date Return rr_BarChartYearToDateReturn 2.53%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Best Quarter:
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Sep. 30, 2002
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 5.44%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Worst Quarter:
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Jun. 30, 2004
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (2.72%)
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | Class B
  
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Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol TSGIX
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) on purchases as a % of purchase price rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOther   
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) as a % of purchase or sale price, whichever is less rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther 5.00%
Management fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 1.00%
Other expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.30%
Total annual fund operating expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.90%
Contractual expense reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.07%) [2]
Total annual fund operating expenses after expense reimbursements rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.83%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 686
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 890
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 1,220
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 2,021
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 186
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 590
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 1,020
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 2,021
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | Class C
  
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Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol TCGIX
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) on purchases as a % of purchase price rr_MaximumCumulativeSalesChargeOverOther   
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) as a % of purchase or sale price, whichever is less rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther 1.00%
Management fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 1.00%
Other expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.30%
Total annual fund operating expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.90%
Contractual expense reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.07%) [2]
Total annual fund operating expenses after expense reimbursements rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.83%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 286
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 590
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 1,020
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 2,216
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 186
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 590
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 1,020
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 2,216
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | before tax | Class A
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 1.43%
5 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 4.79%
10 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 4.32%
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | before tax | Class B
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.54%
5 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 4.64%
10 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 4.17%
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | before tax | Class C
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 4.43%
5 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 4.97%
10 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 4.02%
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | After tax on distributions | Class A
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.36%
5 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 3.41%
10 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 2.85%
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | After tax on distributions, with sale | Class A
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.91%
5 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 3.27%
10 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 2.80%
John Hancock Government Income Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares | Barclays Capital U.S. Government Bond Index
  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 9.02%
5 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 6.56%
10 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 5.59%
[1] (on certain purchases, including those of $1 million or more)
[2] The adviser has contractually agreed to limit the maximum rate of management fee to 0.53% of the fund's average daily net assets. The current expense limitation agreement expires on September 30, 2013, unless renewed by mutual agreement of the fund and the adviser based upon a determination that this is appropriate under the circumstances at that time.
[3] The adviser has contractually agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fee and/or reimburse or pay operating expenses of the fund to the extent necessary to maintain the fund's total operating expenses at 0.98% for Class A shares, excluding certain expenses such as taxes, brokerage commissions, interest expense, litigation and indemnification expenses and other extraordinary expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses paid indirectly and short dividend expense. The current expense limitation agreement expires on September 30, 2013, unless renewed by mutual agreement of the fund and the adviser based upon a determination that this is appropriate under the circumstances at that time.