The teachings are more practical than dogmatic. Buddhism offers a way for a person to manage their "monkey mind" and avoid letting emotions control their behavior. There is ritual if a person wants to do it, and if it helps. These practices aim to limit the ego, not offer a framework that exploits the ego by setting dogma that has to be accepted. Some forms, like Zen, will have certain "truths" to it that are somewhat ideological. That's more of an American thing.
Well these aren't an emphasis in Buddhism. If anything it aims to help the person trust themselves by being more aware of what the mind is doing, how it reacts, what their intentions are, right action, facing fears, etc.
This contrasts with Western religions that require a belief in some external truth and being and the self is minimized and lost in that illusion. People need faith when they are absorbed in a dogma that often is contrary to what is observed of the actual world. Religion can exploit emotional weakness, and that creates a crisis that religion then suggests it can solve.