2 iPhones each with there own Apple ID, can we share the same iCloud Keychain, how?

Do we need to each use the same Apple ID in order to share the keychain? 

Not quite.  The account you have in Settings>iCloud (and also in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars) is your primary account.  You will need to share this primary account to sync the same keychain to both devices as iCloud keychain does not sync with secondary accounts.  To implement this one of you would do the following:
Save any photo stream photos that you want to keep to your camera roll
Go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, choose Delete from My iPhone and provide the password when prompted.  The account and data would only be removed from the phone, not from iCloud.
Sign back in with the other person's iCloud ID to share this as their primary account.
Turn off any data they do not wish to have on their phone from this shared account, such as the other person's contacts.
Add their original account back as a secondary account by going to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud and signing in with their orignal iCloud ID.
Turn on Contacts syncing in the secondary account to sync back their contacts to their phone.  Secondary accounts, while more limited than primary accounts, can also sync Mail, Reminders, Calendars and Notes so all of this data could be synced back from the original account and turned off in the primary account if you want to keep these separate too.
Only the primary account will support iCloud bookmarks, photo stream, documents & data, iCloud backup and Find My iPhone and iCloud Keychain so you will be sharing all these services.  Your backups, for example, would both have to share the same 5GB of storage in the shared primary account.
I'm not sure if you feel that all these trade-offs are worth it to share the same keychain but at the present time that's what would be required to do so.

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