Chances are, your positions are not the primary problem in people believing that you are for them, but your posture toward them. What are you known for? Being FOR people or against them? In order to be FOR the people that God is FOR, we need think differently about our posture, and put that ahead of our positions.
Conviction is an indicator of “God with us”.
During the Passover meal, Jesus broke bread and pass around a cup saying, this is my body and blood which is given for you....
God came to be with us to remove our excuses from us.