Academics have argued that not all the returning fighters share the same degree of ideological conviction.

For in a polity in which there has been philosophical convergence, managerial competence rather than ideological conviction will determine who wins, holds or loses government office.

If eventually they joined the party established by their eccentric wartime comrade, they did so, like most of their fellow countrymen, from political opportunism rather than any ideological conviction.

Until now, many people who have installed solar panels, wind turbines or other such green paraphernalia have done so largely out of ideological conviction.

This was due to pragmatic reasons rather than to an ideological conviction.