lover-politician, you're right it's a tricky process to figure out where one 'holds' religiously, and where one is going. I myself have been shomer-ngia and not, shabbat observant and not, kashrut observant and not, now I have paiot and a beard but used to be clean-shaven with a fro...

but religious dating, such as it is, has a fairly advanced terminology for parsing out these distinctions, and even directions.  No, you don't always know where you will be holding in five or ten years, but sometimes the right questions can help you figure out your probabilities or at least red lines (what kind of school would you send kids to? Will you let your kids eat at their non-kashrut-observant grandparents' house?)

 You articulate your vision and hopes for life, and that should at least outline possible directions... political views about Israel/Palestine DO amount to religious convictions, too...