There's actually a certain sense to this. Consider this when young boys are playing video games and a girl comes on, many come to faun over her based on the mystery of the girl. They don't know what they look like but they imagine her to be what they see as a pretty girl, even though there can be a 50/50 chance of her being ugly as fuck. The mystery still plays out here to the male crusader who imagines her in the best fantasy he can come up with.