The Buddha thought of it as one of the major causes of human suffering and one of the major things to be overcome. They should have only reasonable beliefs, and they should examine beliefs that are handed to them by their tradition or their elders and explore them and only then really come to uphold them if they seem reasonable. If you define religion narrowly, as holding a certain belief, then Buddhism may actually be thought of as not a religion. Turning to modem times, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, is most strong on his own idea of being self-restrained as a Buddhist. I have heard him speak very movingly about when he was younger, even though Buddhism has these ideals of tolerance and this ideal of understanding as being more important than faith or, rather, that faith should be a reasoned faith only, not a blind faith.
Blind faith is an inferior form of faith.
Although that is the case, he admits that Buddhists do think of themselves as superior because they hold that view, and they think a lot of other people believe things that they think are not really reasonable. Therefore, they feel somewhat patronizing about them, and they feel that if they came to adopt Buddhism, maybe they could get enlightened. He confesses, in other words, to this kind of Buddhist chauvinism previously and says that it took him a long time to come to realize it. He credits Thomas Merton as having helped him greatly. Buddhists believe in a creator God, but they do not believe in the omnipotence of the creator God.