Indeed, but force of arms or clever communications; the end is still to rule.
Last I checked, quite a number of religions have no desire to rule: we Orthodox Christians were the first to invent a “separation of Church and State”, albeit a cooperative separation called by historians “the Byzantine symphony of powers”, and while we do think the world, mankind and each individual person would be better off were everyone to embrace the Holy Orthodox Faith, imposing it by ruling wouldn’t be all that helpful.
Neither Jews nor Hindus nor Buddhists, all of whom believe theirs to be the true faith seem much inclined to rule the world or impose their faith on others either by force or clever communications (leaving aside the Burmese military that wants to forcibly impose Buddhism on their populace and some Hindu ultranationalists who’d like to forcibly Hinduize all of India). Last I checked most animist sects in Africa have no ambition to spread their faith and practices either by force or proselytizing. The Druze hardly want to spread their creed: you have to be born Druze to be Druze and they have a command in their religion to side with the dominant religion in whatever country they live — hence Lebanese Druze siding with the Christians until the demographic balance shifted and now siding with the Shi’ites, while Israeli Druze actually fight in the IDF (and are the only Arab Israelis allowed to do so).