Preposition: as

• fellow: If it's worth dying for, and I am just as idealistic as the next fellow.

Infinitive complement

• expect: Prayer troubleshooting It would be idealistic to expect family prayer always to go according to your plans.

Modifies a noun

• notion: By sunset, a woman's idealistic notions can come back down to earth.

• aspiration: They were in the business of bad law-making based on dogmatic idealistic aspirations, rather than commonsense.

• vision: Both parties were riding to power on an idealistic vision.

• philosophy: So, using the categories of Greek idealistic philosophy, the connections were made on the level of typology and allegory.

• dream: Before this is written off as an idealistic dream, let us consider how nations are built.

• lawyer: They are worthless paper money, invented by idealistic lawyers 56 years ago at a conference in Rome.

Modifying Another Word

• hopelessly: Some would say that I already live in that society, while others would say that I'm being hopelessly idealistic.

• somewhat: The aims indicated above are, no doubt, somewhat idealistic for a small new journal.

• too: Some of the schemes do sound a little too idealistic for a first term.

• rather: They moved because they had a rather idealistic view of life away from the city and are now moving back.

• very: You are able to put very idealistic concepts into practice.

• not: Not only am I not idealistic about the state, I'm not even ideologically attached to it.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It may seem idealistic, even dictatorial, to state that the Linux community should simply reject commercialisation.

• sound: Forgive me if I have been sounding idealistic in all this.

• become: I'm somehow managing to simultaneously become more idealistic, less cynical, and more critical as I get older.