Why are miners in support of BCH, if they have to mine at a loss?

My question doesn't mean any disrespect to the BCH community. I just love BCH as much as you do, and I keep asking questions in the subreddit to increase my own knowledge through discussion here. I see that BCH isn't much of a profitable coin to mine by the miners, so why the miners are in support of BCH. And if BCH is attacked today, will mining pools come forward to protect it?