I think that it is very helpfull to trust eachother, if one is intended to live side by side. Especially when two hostile peoples live on the same territory, it is a common habit of the peacemakers to perform some actions to teach contrahents to trust eachother at least a little bit. In German it's called "vertrauensbildende Massnahmen" - "trust forming political measurments" (?).
Trust is an essential component of relationships between humans and entire peoples. But it can only sustain, if these partners lay down hostile attitudes against eachother and cooperate in some way, be it trade relations or political alliances. Such fruitfull cooperation and mutual benefit are able to enlarge the mutual trust.
Unfortunately, some developements of overwhelming power can disturb such peacefull living side-by-side, especially if these developements are initiated by people who profit rather from mutual adversities than from the peace. In our case, we have not only to deal with ignorant straights who we can persuade of our being equally nice, but in first line with powerfull religious groups, who count homophobia to their essential ideologies. These groups instigate hostility against us since millenia and have mighty political allies, which is understandable. Wherever one looks to in the world, theocracy is a wide-spread phenomenon.
Now, we are not the only victims of these theocrates - the moderate lefts, the liberals and the scientists are on our side. These groups have nothing to fear from us, and we have nothing to fear from them. It is by times difficult to urge them to any actual action for our support, but it's possible.
In one point I must disagree with Denneny - the claim that we do not demand financial support is obsolet. We do nowadays - by receiving communal money for LGBT-related social projects, for marriage-related benefits and so on. And this is fine with us - as taxpayers we have no reason to be humble. I always was wondering that many same-sex marriage activists claimed in debates: "This would cost society almost nothing or very little" and regarded it to be a viable argumentation. No, we must stand up and loudly say that we want some part of our money back - we are not less worth than others, why should we be treated differently from anybody else?