My ideological allies will say I'm a controversialist who needs a public scrap to sell his wares.
Instead, we have a puff piece from an ideological ally that, in the end, tells us absolutely nothing.
But his opinions have sometimes surprised ideological allies and even other colleagues on the bench.
Its closest ideological ally among the right-wing parties is The Republicans.
He was a friend and an ideological ally for many of those people and it's a friendship they took very seriously.
Republicans tend to think of him as an ideological ally.
Even Reagan's ideological ally and defender, George Will, made no effort to defend him on this.
North Korea, a longstanding ideological ally, has had increasingly testy relations with China in recent years.
The two men are actually, in a sense, ideological allies, leaders of the only two pro-Western liberal parties.
Even his ideological allies in Parliament denounced the President's threat to use force to restore order.