Did I blow my promotion at the end of the year?

I've been working as an oil & gas analyst at a consulting company at Fairfax, VA for almost 3 years now. Lately, I've experienced work-withdrawal symptoms - primarily due to the fact that I don't get a whole lot of responsibilities . . . And I still feel like I am getting piece-meal work from my project managers. Every analyst in the company has a hiring manager to whom he or she reports. Mine has an notorious reputation for not doing much for their hired analysts, but I didn't want to skip over him for fear of showing disrespect. So I initiated conversation with him on Tuesday to ask for work outside the business unit because I felt that would help me build a niche; get more responsibilities with my existing managers. That didn't come out across well, and he thought that I wanted to forgo this job to go downstairs. We did not end the conversation well with each other. So today, I decided to try again - I spoke to him about how I felt I wasn't getting responsibilities; how I was still doing piece-meal work; how this makes my productivity go down; and that I really wanted to work things out. During the conversation, he did all the technical things that a project manager was supposed to do. But deep down inside, I knew that even though he appreciated my effort to raise my issues and work things out with him, he was not going to do much and pretty much considered me as a whiner. We ended the conversation with him holding his chin in his palm and a look of "Okay, fine, I am listening." I don't think that this is normal for every work place. Before all of this talking, he had a pretty high opinion of me. But now, I am starting to wonder if all this talking in the correct order within the organization actually made me think worse of me and as a result, blew my possibility of a promotion. What do you think? Thanks.