'ideological apparatus' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to a set of beliefs and concepts that are used to inform and shape an ideology. For example, "The ideological apparatus of democracy encourages citizens to participate in the political process."
Characteristically, this book for students of literature argued that there was no such thing as literature and that literary criticism was but a conservative political ideology: "Departments of literature in higher education are part of the ideological apparatus of the modern capitalist state".
"All that remains here is some ideological apparatus".
The extent of that ideological apparatus remains uncertain.
This readical change toward self-determination in French Communism marks the second historic change in the European ideological apparatus.
For Pearl, as Bernard-Henri Lévy tells us in "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?," was crushed by a granitelike ideological apparatus.
Given the clumsiness and thoughtlessness with which all of this is being recreated, the present political regime's ideological apparatus deserves no praise.
This removal of normative content from the ideological apparatuses has the dangerous effect of depoliticising the organization of social life and therefore justifying its institutions by rendering them functional within a system of supposedly technically necessary activity.
Louis Althusser also wrote about schools being the primary Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) in charge of evening out creases in the social fabric and developing an upright citizenry.
These ideologies are instantiated by institutions or "Ideological State Apparatuses" like family, schools, church, etc., which provide the developing subject with categories in which she can recognize herself.
See Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Towards an Investigation," in Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays, trans.
This account of how a human being becomes a self-conscious subject was published in an essay titled "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1970).
