extraposition from "it" in object position

[Herb Stahlke]

In a post today, Tom Zurinskas wrote the following:

 I would hope it that reasonable minds would work toward a common
English so that there is minimal misinterpretation.

This is the first instance I've encountered of extraposition from "it"
in object position with the verb "hope" (to go back to Rosenbaum's
analysis).  A lot of people don't like sentences like this at all,
whatever the verb, but I find myself doing it with "like," "hate,"
"expect," "doubt," and a few other verbs, but not with "hope."  Tom,
was this a case of incomplete retyping or does this construction feel
natural?

Herb

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