If you think that he might be aggresive enough to bet your check on this flop, why not bet out 1100 or so to look weak? He could easily reraise you with a number of hands, as you've said you have a tight image and could likely have JJ-KK to reraise him preflop. This gets much more money off him than a check/raise. The downside of course is that your commiting your stack if you do this, and any AK or set takes you out. Still, theres a very large pot sitting there right now, and like you said he doesnt need AK to raise preflop. Discounting that, I think the only reasonable hand he could call you with preflop is a set on this flop. I'd be fairly comfortable putting my stack at risk here, and I think betting about 1100 should get you the max amount money off a hand that you can beat.
PS another advantage to this play is that you get hands like 77 to either fold, or go allin with you.