Ieldra: Sounds to me like you already have a well thought out rationale to govern your playthrough. As to "not stooping" I understand where you're coming from, though I'd say self-delusion is as real a human condition as there is and therefore a valid approach. Personally I find it more fun to have only a general ideological framework because often my perception of what I believe to be some sort of absolute truth ends up altered...sometimes quite radically.
If people weren't prone to self-delusion, some ideologies wouldn't exist. I'm not willing to roleplay all permutations of such though. For instance, I have no trouble playing a power-hungry bastard, of the "I do this because I can" type. Even if I do, though, I'll never be able to play one who believes they're more deserving of that power than others. That's because "deserving" implies a judgment and the idea that there are absolute grounds for such judgment is as alien to my mindset as the idea of faith in a higher power. So, my power-hungry bastards will be aware of the fact that their aspirations are existentially arbitrary. Not that this will stop them...
For the same reason, the same limitation applies to the "good" side: I can roleplay a full archetypal hero who accepts a duty to save the world and sacrifices their lives for it, but I am unwilling to play one who believes he's on a divine mission. They may accept duties presented to them by someone else, even a deity, but they will always know that even a deity's will is arbitrary and there is no absolute righteousness.
I should say that it's odd how this puts me at odds with both the typical supremacist mindset as well as a typical religious one. Maybe that's why I've always felt they have something in common: the certainty about their own existential importance I find myself unable to adopt if I want to keep at least some identification with my character.
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