occlusion query and display list

I have a doubt concerning the use of occlusion query for occludes which are made by display list. I understand that occlusion query can improve performance for occludes created in immediate mode rendering but if i use display list for those occludes and then query for their bounding volumes, would it make any improvement in the frame rate. because i think since the occlude objects are already in the display list-sent to the GPU- there shouldn’t be any performance gain and even if it is it should be marginal…

Kindly help