You would be foolish to believe the Fed is going to stand at zero interest rates forever.  The policy seems to have been the right move to avoid another Great Depression, though there are always the ‘Monday am quarterbacks’ who seem to know more than the Committee (let’s be thankful we only have one group only to make decisions).

The Fedspeak of late has been not about if but when rate hikes could/should occur.  The pause in the argument is always about the data, the Fed’s interpretation about growth, inflation and employment.  The Fed will not just raise rates symbolically, with the potential of derailing an already dicey economy.  

Do they want to decouple Fed policy from the stock market and economy?  You bet they do, but that must be done carefully and strategically.  Looking to the markets we can see what the expectation is for fed futures by looking here where we see there the odds of a full 25bps rate hike are priced in January.  
 
However, with recent comments from the Fed talking about slower and more gradual rate hikes, it might make sense to raise rates in smaller increments than normal (since this is not a normal time, so why not?).  

We have Sept/Oct showing a fully-price 10bps rate hike (see the link above), which may be timed perfectly for the Sept meeting (which has a follow-up press conference by Chair Yellen).   This makes sense and is mostly not being talked about in circles.
It’ll be interesting how things shake out over the coming weeks and months.