The project began with an idealistic vision.
But Washington clung to his idealistic vision of tolerance and became the binding agent of a divided country.
Here was an idealistic vision designed by liberal pragmatists.
His idealistic vision of the working world shatters quickly.
The magazine was an idealistic vision to create unity in the arts.
It was an idealistic vision of the world of football.
He seems increasingly to distrust the idealistic visions of humanity that typify his early works.
The two views are often called, with some bias toward the romantic, the "idealistic" and "nationalistic" visions of Europe.
He had an idealistic vision of a camera that would release the artist in everyone.
But it's an idealistic, totalitarian vision that tramples on everything a free society stands for.