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Judaism is, of course, a special case for the Christian. But while there was a point in time where Judaism contained no error (and I suspect you could read the NT to even disagree with this), that is no longer the case.
Religion, or at least most religions, are not simply "belief in a collection of ideals". Most of them also teach about matters of fact. For example, Christianity teaches that Christ died and rose again from the dead. Buddhism teaches that the physical world is illusion. Islam teaches that Mohammed received the Qu'ran from Allah (I think). These are matters of fact, and so can be right or wrong.
Finally, I should make something clear. When I say that Christianity is true, I mean both that the set of facts that constitute Christianity are all true, and that Christianity is a path to human flourishing. I do not mean that my own beliefs about Christianity are all true, that I know exactly what Christianity is, or anything like that. I'm abstracting to talk about something like the Platonic form of Christianity, because that seems useful for the purposes of this discussion.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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