Possible Clues:

• Dissent from champion hugging the heartless mistress
• Heresy
• Look here around the empty bar and steer fringe opinion
• Heretical belief
• Non-conformism
• Heresy, belief contrary to authorised teaching
• Not conforming, they rode out across city, avoiding ford
• "No man's shoe wrings him the more because of the ––, or the tippling of his shoemaker" (Marvell)
• Unconventional ideas