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A couple of years ago I would have said "yes". Since joining this website I have changed my opinion and say "generally, no it is not possible".
As an example, there is a strange view from Turks that the EU is "Christian" (when in fact, although we have "official religion" most northern europeans don´t give religion much thought at all would probably describe themselves as agnostic or atheist!!). The perception of many Turks is that "we don´t like Turkey because they are muslim (!). I think they give us too much credit for deep thought and caring about Turkey!!! I am quite sure if you asked most UK citizens what religion Turkish people are, the majority would not have a clue! 
In addition, most UK tourists I know who travel to countries with different faiths, are very interested in learning about that faith and their culture. Many people I know come back from India, the Maldives, Japan etc. with a new understanding and respect of the faith of the country they visited. This simply WOULD NEVER HAPPEN if a muslim visited a country who had a different religion - by the very nature of it´s "rules".
Therefore, going back to the original question quoted above, it is not possible for a "true religious believer to enjoy good relations with other people or other faiths or none" because in their eyes the world is divided into believers and non-believers of their faith and they assume non-believers of their faith are enemies.
This time I am extending my portion of agreement to 95% AE (5% is just incase  )
But I think xenephobia coming from Turks should be treated more differently than the one coming from religious beleivers as the first one very much related to other non religious factors such as education, memories of WWI etc.
But, in the end, all religions and religious people believe that theirs is devine and so they are more devine than the others..So, a true believer would NOT enjoy good relations with other people from other faiths..
And also as far as UK population is concerned, I think more than 30% publicly declare that they dont believe in any religions, more than 80% believe in evolution.
Considering there are not much religion problems in the UK and Britons are quite interested in (and very tolerant to) other religions, we can conclude that ´religions are playing a negative role for tolerance´ (or you can say that non-believers are more tolerant to others than religious people) 
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