diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/symmetric-encryption.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/symmetric-encryption.rst
index c2692ae..c98b381 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/symmetric-encryption.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/symmetric-encryption.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
             provider.
 
         If the backend doesn't support the requested combination of ``cipher``
-        and ``mode`` an :class:`cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm`
+        and ``mode`` an :class:`~cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm`
         exception will be raised.
 
 .. _symmetric-encryption-algorithms: