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Wrong. Greeks were no different than modern man. Some were devout believers, some not. In 300 A.D. (around when Christianity took hold) Greeks were still worshipping Zeus & Co. but had also added other gods.
That is the typical model. All religions (especially Christianity and Islam) begin with what is there and modify it. Almost everything in Christianity, for example, can be traced back to Persian/Hindu/Aryan? sun-worship.
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By the time of 1 AD, the Greek critical mind had destroyed the national Hellenic religion as a true religion. The old religious myths were used for artistic motifs and allegories for sure, but only the uneducated gave the old Gods creedence.
The Greeks began looking to the east for inspiration (Where the original Greek Deities had come from the North), and Oriental cults had been moving into Greece since Alexander the Great created his empire. Then from Greece the Oriental Religions moved into Rome. Eventually the Oriental Mystery Religions became more popular then any hold outs to the old ways.