His pragmatism is being written out of the picture, replaced by ideological purity.

What works is more important than the ideological purity of the solution to the problem.

Even the military units have party members watching over the ideological purity of everyone.

The new American strategy cannot afford ideological purity, if it ever could.

Others have protested that the leadership has abandoned its ideological purity.

House leadership cannot and should not enforce absolute ideological purity, of course.

Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections.

That ideological purity is not going to work any more.

Today the ideological purity of the movement has been diluted by economics.

He was the sort who'd want to show his resolve and ideological purity, as though anyone cared about that today!