Blogging for fun and Profit

I would like to advance the notion that it is entirely possible to have ads on a page, and not be motivated by the profit generated by those ads.

I only say this because I am applying for Google's Ad service for this blog, but I intentionally skipped the article that Blogger offers on something like "How to optimize your blog for Google's Ads..." And I have been reading various comments on how blogs w/o ads seem to have some kind of 'authority' that other sources with ads do (be they blogs, or network news, &c.)