I feel the need to ascribe to him fantastic theories about his predecessors, and it is with a certain sense of disillusion that I confess he thought about them pretty much as does everybody else.

Noun	1.	disillusion - freeing from false belief or illusions disenchantment, disillusionment edification, sophistication - uplifting enlightenment
Verb	1.	disillusion - free from enchantment disenchant disappoint, let down - fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"       disillusion verb shatter your illusions, disabuse, bring down to earth, open the eyes of, disenchant, undeceive I hate to disillusion you, but he's already married. noun disenchantment, disappointment, rude awakening There is disillusion with established political parties.