And yet, here we are: nearly everything we do is ideological in some fashion, willingly or not, aware, or not.

As Terry Eagleton wrote, "Ideology is like halitosis, it’s always someone else’s problem.

Mind you, he defines ideology as the way in which we participate in our own oppression. It’s a little more refined than the definition being used here, which is actually closer to “creed”.

I think Eagleton’s definition is more useful.