Have you ever done this?

You just feel like, "Well this is the end of the faction" so you just hop provinces. I mean like, invading a province but never capturing it and moving on towards an 'objective'. A bit like a crusade except without the large army and without the permission. I tried it with the Danes and managed to make it to Greece without capturing any real provinces. By the time I got to Greece my king was the only one left.