"Just living up to my idealistic beliefs," he kidded.

This involved violent elimination of what were termed "bourgeois and idealistic political beliefs," to install faith in "class struggle and revolutionary change."

Together, they formed a plan to establish a colony and educational institute in northern Ohio, based on idealistic Christian beliefs.

His years of practical experience give him a foundation of hard-headed realism on which he bases much of his more idealistic beliefs.

Our idealistic beliefs, many of which are reflected in Mr. Clinton's political agenda, are deeply held, not phony.

In Cezannes day, there was an optimistic, idealistic belief that this newly discovered 'subconscious' would one day throw up the meaning of life - through art.

This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake, but because of the way these states viewed their national interests.

Out of an idealistic belief in art for everyone, and scepticism about the art world, he devoted himself to what was then called 'non-formal education'.

She was the companion of Wassily Kandinsky and shared his idealistic belief that art could transform society.

They often talked to my sister and me about their idealistic belief in a society in which everyone happily shared wealth and power.