I don't miss that point.

To you. That you know of.

To someone that worships. They are hoping or expecting that their prayer is heard.

That is true only sometimes. Maybe even most of the time, but not %100 of the time.

The other times, too.

Many people have worshipped non-anthropomorphic things, with none of the specific agenda you describe.

I don't think so, but I'm all ears.

There are people who worship nature, not as a conscious entity, and not to achieve a desired outcome by communicating with, exerting influence over, or receiving special favors from it. You may not agree with it, or understand it, or be aware of it, but there they are. They do exist.

I never said they expect or hope anything in return, but if they worship, they expect or hope to be heard. Otherwise it's just therapy.

This boils down to whether the definition of the word "worship" necessarily indicates a communicative act as you've described.
This is clearly your definition, but not the same one that everybody uses. From your persepctive, this is all merely speculation.

Y'know, you really can deconstruct language to the point where none of it means anything, or all of it means everything.

Prayer is the conscious focus of energy, based on whatever imagery to which you are attuned. Thus, when one worships, be it Jehovah, rocks, Allah or Britney Spears, that individual is having a personal, energetic interaction with The Universe. IMHO, it is immaterial *what or who* the focus of it is, because it is the individual who is doing all the work.

So, from my point of view (which I grant is not shared by most Western religions), there *is* a reason to worship something which is not necessarily anthropomorphic, or conscious in the classical, human-centric sense.

The definition of "worship" that doesn't involve communication is the figurative one, like worshipping the almighty dollar.

But in some other sense.

You only disagree with what is in the sense that you mean, but you've been insisting that everything is in this sense.And you also can't project your definitions on other people and insist that they are using them when they clearly aren't.