I disagree. If you take something that belongs to someone else without his permission, you are expressing contempt for that person and his property rights. Contempt is a form of hatred.
If you stupidly commit a crime at someone else’s bidding - like gang members do all the time - that’s an expression of hate for whoever you commit a crime against, or society in general, and of course hatred for yourself, because you value someone else’s influence over your own safety and wellbeing.
A crime committed accidentally - through a careless blunder - always gets a lesser sentence than one committed intentionally, but is not without penalty, of course - and this type of crime also involves contempt/hatred for innocent bystanders or unwitting participants.
I get that in this case, the hate crime charges would change the defendants’ sentences. But why shouldn’t murder be enough?
In that situation, I doubt that the thief even gives it that much thought. More like indifference to the victim, not giving enough of a damn to even think about them. That is not the same as contempt.