"without expecting to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to indicate an unexpected consequence or outcome of an event. For example: "He went jogging without expecting to break a world record, but he ended up doing just that".
Can we serve without expecting to be worshipped?
Now in his mid-thirties, he e-mailed Keo Films without expecting to hear anything.
"They wound up with great results without expecting to," he said.
Hundreds of people run for president every four years without expecting to turn the debates into a free-for-all.
It would be so much more gratifying if voters could be illuminated without expecting to be excited.
Abandon all hope, ye who read any further without expecting to have the season finale of this AMC drama spoiled for you.
Microcredit-providers, which are charities that lend tiny amounts to the poor without necessarily expecting to make a profit in return, are globally trendy and socially responsible.
In particular, it is plausible to claim that, in the year 2000, educated opinion had altered to the extent that, in many quarters, one could speak of the possibility of machines' thinking and of machines' learning without expecting to be contradicted.
He notes with pride that two to four-year-olds take to the game quickly, without expecting it to be like experiences to which seasoned gamers might compare Everything.
In 2005, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis called for the end of a multicultural "policy" that permits "people of different cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate into society".
And don't bosses have enough to handle, what with this slumping economy, without being expected to rally the troops by making them laugh?
