“…Nonetheless, rigorous examination of simpler model problems such as the ones considered in the present work is a key first step. Even though a number of strong convergence rates for stochastic wave equations are available (cf., e.g., [3,7,8,30,39,44,45,48]), apart from the findings of the works Harms & Müller [20] and Cox et al [11], which have appeared after the preprint [23] of the present article, the existing weak convergence results for stochastic wave equations in the literature (cf., e.g., [22,28,29,31,45,46]) assume that the diffusion coefficient is constant or, in other words, that the equation is driven by additive noise.…”