Knowing his purpose, he may have well been banking on both. Whichever it was would bear out it's truth in time.

[Damien is just The Worst, isn't he? Even now. It's easiest to think about old enemies now, not the things that they're facing at the moment. They're...they're worse than vampires. All three of them know how to deal with vampires now.]

If anything, that's closer to a compliment. I'd rather be a spoiled princeling, given the option between the two.