true believers
The utterly convinced
True believers are people who accept a doctrine, cause, or ideology with complete conviction.
The term often carries a skeptical edge, suggesting followers whose faith resists evidence or reason: The true believers dismissed every criticism of the movement.
It can describe religious devotees, political partisans, or anyone committed to an idea beyond persuasion.
Less commonly, it's used admiringly for those who maintain faith when others waver.
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- followersPeople who support someone
- enthusiastsPeople deeply into something
- cultistsDevoted followers of unorthodox beliefs
- adherentsLoyal supporters of something
disciples · inner circle · supporters · apostle · fanatics · zealots · dyed in the wool · evangelist · faithful · party faithful · converts · blind faith · aficionados · martyrs · ideologues · partisans · loyalists · rank and file
- fundamentalistsfundamentalists, zealots, literalists, dogmatists, absolutists
- devoteesdevotee, devotees, adherent, adherents, follower
- followersfollowers, conformist, disciples, devotees, adherents
- loyal supportersdiehards, loyalists, devotees, die-hard fans, supporters
- sports fansfans, superfan, superfans, fanatic, fanatics
- supportersfan, patron, supporters, backers, backer
true believersskeptics
Those who doubt claims
doubters · nonbelievers · disbelievers · doubting Thomases · agnostics
true believersapostates
Those who abandon belief
defectors · turncoats · traitors · deserters · fence-sitters
true believershypocrites
Those feigning false virtue
poseurs · pretenders · fakers · phonies · wolves in sheep's clothing
true, truly, truths, truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untrue, truism, truer