Maybe? With current systems, a surprising number of people vote without any belief that their vote will make a big difference. And yet, if enough people do that

Maybe? With current systems, a surprising number of people vote without any belief that their vote will make a big difference. And yet, if enough people do that, those votes do in fact make a big difference. Celebrities have been elected quite a few times, and presumably at least some of those votes came from people who assumed the celebrity in question wasn't going to win, and so there was no risk in their vote.