political sympathies vs thought

political sympathies and thought both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
political sympathies	Yes	No	No	No
thought	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, thought is a hypernym of political sympathies; that is, thought is a word with a broader meaning than political sympathies:

political sympathies: the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
thought: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

Other hypernyms of political sympathies include opinion, persuasion, sentiment, view.

political sympathies (noun)	thought (noun)
the opinion you hold with respect to political questions	the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
	the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
	the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
	a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty