Precisely.
Holier-than-thou-ism is also a powerful motive for religious-superstitious power-dominance-patronising fantasies. Tweak them a little, and the masks slip off.
As young boys, my brother and I would talk before falling asleep. One of us would start a story that would take us on an adventurous journey. Our mind was the limit where we went and what we could do! We would "ad lib" as we went along, "acquiring" powers and tools needed, be it super cars, weapons, planes, or skills, etc., and were, of course, invincible and always right! And everything was possible — and believable! :)
That was fun, and part of careless childhood, but life soon teaches us otherwise (or it should). Unfortunately some never go beyond that initial stage of living a fantasy, and believing it.
This reminds me of a patient who demanded a "doctor's note" that he is a woman because he was a "woman trapped in a man's body" and was upset that his record was showing a "wrong" gender! He came to believe that he was a woman and the fact that anatomically he wasn't didn't seem to matter. His reality was his fantasy and he wanted everyone to agree, because he knew better.
We used to have a diagnostic term for that, but since then medical profession dropped insanity as a differential. Now you can be crazy only legally! :)
So, if one day you decide you are the Napoleon Bonaparte, or some Egyptian deity, by golly, the world better acquiesce, and recognize your revelation as worthy of consideration and on the par with scince. I know.../s Horus :)
Are you proposing it’s impossible to be a sincere Christian?