These divisions led to tensions, at times, with the more combative and doctrinaire activists in Mong Kok, who tended to regard the anarchists as lacking in zeal.
His advisers admit he may lack the zeal for economic reform that he has for the issues of security and constitutional change.
Another is Janez Drnovsek, Slovenia's cautiously reforming prime minister, who lacks radical zeal but senses how fast his people would like to go.
The first state-funded Muslim and Sikh schools opened soon after he took power, and the first Hindu school in 2008.Mr Blair's successors have lacked his zeal, but religious schools continue to flourish.
Yet the likeliest winner, Taro Aso, the foreign minister, lacks the zeal that voters appear to want for tackling domestic concerns, and has a nationalist agenda very like Mr Abe's.
Some fear that both Goldsmith and Kahn lack the zeal for cycling shown by the incumbent mayor - our own Peter Walker took each candidate in turn to task on their cycling pledges.
Over the years, he often challenged venture-capital investors to be patient, warning that it was a mistake to replace founders with professional managers who lacked their zeal and vision.
The younger ones are surprisingly lacking in evangelical zeal; they lounge on camping chairs, share hot chocolates, refer to the vigil as a "social gathering with friends", as they make up the numbers and say they don't agree with all the content in "these leaflets from America".
He simply puts his chips out there in a way that others, lacking in talent or zeal, do not.
Europeans lack such patriotic zeal.
