Dispensationalism or Hyper-Fundamentalism?

I can't help but wonder after researching fundamentalism if dispensationalism is simply an eschatology of convenience for the fundamentalists. While not all fundamentalists are dispensational, it seems nowadays that if you are an upstanding evangelical (a term that is basically synonomous with fundamentalism) you are therefore dispensational. I can't help but wonder if my eschatology and hermeneutics allows me to fit into the evangelical model still. Am I still considered an evangelical if I'm not necessarily dispensational? I remember a conversation that I had with another student a few months ago where I was told that good evangelicals only hold to a literal interpretation to prophetic scripture. The more I read about fundamentalism and dispensationalism I can't help but wonder if it is really whether people care about the praxis of their eschatology, or if it's just some version of hyper fundamentalism.
Christopher J.