It should be as simple as that: Just get the terms from the link_category
and use the get_terms()
argument instead, which should work like you need it.
get_terms(
'link_category'
,array(
'include' => array( 1, 2, 3 )
,'orderby' => 'name'
,'order' => 'ASC'
,'hierarchical' => 0
)
);