"How can they accept me as their leader if they think I lie?"

To get them to accept me as their indispensable leader.

I realized, then, that they had accepted me as their leader.

While he has a rocky start in the position, they come to accept him as their leader.

They were hardly ready to accept his killer as their leader.

There he was met by a completely new group of writers and thinkers, who were eager to accept him as their leader.

As a result, it was a while before the others accepted him as their leader.

"Why would the cult accept an outsider as their leader?"

As a Teacher, he was automatically accepted as their leader.

"If I agreed to your plan, you would accept me as your leader?"