They need to realize that they hold unprovable beliefs no differently than religious people

Well, any atheist worth his or her salt will admit that our conviction is unprovable. Not "beliefs" by the way. Beliefs don't enter into this for atheists. Unfortunately, that completely nullifies your final point about being no different from religious people. There is no equal and opposite equivalence between what I think and what a believer believes in. That has been said so many times that it's getting hard to know what to think about people who fail to take it on board.