I think that she wants to preside over an American make-over in which we become a Utopian collective. She has already shown that she wants to separate us from our choice family doctors, and that she hates the military (and they know it, BTW).
I believe that Hillary indeed has a hidden core (albeit a far left one) and that she likely has carefully prepared plans. I'd love to know the contents of her Wellesley thesis, for her true convictions just might be outlined right there.
I was thinking about this in the bath-tub this morning. (Don't laugh!)
I have to argue that Hillary does not have true convictions. It is her ambition to realize a socialist America and to see "President" in front of her name.
People who have convictions are proud of them and would not speak the opposite in public.
Hillary, with socialized medicine and child care, military cutbacks, etc., would take away freedom and liberty from the people. The leader, as in Cuba, would become a dictator which would give her more power than a President normally has. So, ultimately, it is more power for Hillary via the ideology. Any ideology, such as Marxism, that states "The end justifies the means" is lacking in conviction. It is an ambition. That is her core.
I follow your line of thinking, however...
Consider Hillary's mentor, Saul Alinsky, the practical revolutionary.
Alinsky said many creepy, scary things, I'll paraphrase a couple.
First - pretending to moral (in this case being supportive of our Military and our Country) is a 'passport' to desired objectives.
Second, Alinsky also said something to the effect that treason isn't treason to a revolutionary. (I don't know if Hillary takes it this far, let's hope not.)
Thus, a true revolutionary would have no compunction about donning a patriotic cloak while scheming less-than-patriotic schemes.
If convictions are beliefs that one holds with moral certainty, then one could believe that masking values and intent are one's convictions.
Sorry to be tedious on the point. Glad you are pursuing the issue.